A simple question - why? Pennsylvania access to voting machines

From The Epoch Times:

Pennsylvania Department of State Tells Counties Not to Allow Outside Access to Voting Systems
The Pennsylvania agency in charge of elections has issued a new directive telling counties not to let outside parties access electronic voting systems or components of such systems, such as tabulators and ballot printers.

The directive from the Pennsylvania Department of State, released on July 9, states that county boards of elections “shall not” provide any access to third parties that are seeking to examine the systems or system components.

If the counties do allow access, the voting equipment that’s examined “will be considered no longer secure or reliable to use in subsequent elections,” and the department will withdraw its certification for the equipment.

“Such access by third parties undermines chain of custody requirements and strict access limitations necessary to prevent both intentional and inadvertent tampering with electronic voting systems,” Acting Pennsylvania Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid, appointed in February by Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf, said in a statement. “It also jeopardizes the security and integrity of the systems and will prevent electronic voting system vendors from affirming that the systems continue to meet Commonwealth security standards and U.S. Election Assistance Commission certification.”

Their reasons are epic in their bogosity.  If the auditors were able to make changes in the way the voting machines operate, the Secretary of State could determine this and correct the next time the machines were used in an election.  A simple matter of resetting them to factory specs and reloading the software.

If there is nothing to hide in the 2020 Presidential Election, why are so many Democrats throwing up such a hissy fit over a simple audit. They reveal themselves in their protest.

The two-page directive can be found here:  "DIRECTIVE CONCERNING ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEMS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMAGING OF SOFTWARE AND MEMORY FILES, ACCESS TO RELATED INTERNAL COMPONENTS, AND THE CONSEQUENCES TO COUNTY BOARDS OF ALLOWING SUCH ACCESS"

Suprised that they are not invoking a kitchen sink - they list everything else.
The equivalent of throwing a handfull of poo and seeing what sticks.
See what happens in a court of law.