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?
If you had open-source voting machine code, you would get people on Fox News saying something along the lines of, “We’ve looked at the code, and we found that the machines are rigged to give extra votes to the Democrats.” and all their viewers would believe them and start repeating that “fact” on social media forever and ever. At this point it is nothing short of naive to think that actual facts matter to these people.
They can say that anyways with poll stations stuffing ballots. How is that different?
Didn’t Fox News literally just do that with Dominion? Open sourced software is at least verifiable by independent parties and wouldn’t require a long $800 million lawsuit to work through.