I see stories about how election is rigged or that there are security vulnerabilities and lots of people don’t believe the outcome. Why don’t they just open source everything so that anyone can look at the code and be sure the votes are tallied correctly?
Electronic voting could use open source software, but so can a machine that scans a marked ballot. The best practice is to have voters mark a physical ballot, then have them put it in a machine (running open source software) that scans and tabulates the results. If there’s a question about the integrity of the results, we can go back and count physical ballots.
I absolutely agree. Vote counting & tallying machines are fine, but you always want that paper trail.
Mail in voting baby! I want every U.S. citizen to have this right.
That’s how it works in my state except you fill in the printed ballot by hand.
That’s how they do it where I live!