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?
This is a solveable problem, actually. It involves trusted computing platforms where various unrelated parties commit to various audit standards.
It could still, in theory, be compromised, but it would be a a lot harder to rig than anything at have today, since one would need a deep backdoor into multiple separate entities - the hosting company, and the source code repository, and the voting machine manufacturer, etc.