Here’s a good discussion about how eVoting should be done.
Of particular interest, is the case made for using an open source software for the electronic voting machines.
With closed-source, proprietary software a company has the perfect cover to pull some cloak-and-dagger stuff (e.g., insert a backdoor program that allows for the creator to manually change results, or a simple algorithm that swaps a preset percentage of votes).
With open-source everyone could view the code, and there would be plenty of eyes out there to spot suspicious bits of code.
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