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?
I don’t disagree. The point here being that the choice that was made was to keep the machines off any network to mitigate a bunch of attack vectors, and that’s having consequences on which unusual compromises had to be found. In other words: I can see how the obscurity is probably not the goal, only a consequence of other goals.