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?
The tampered machine can be fed challenges before and after the election that reveal if it’s lying about it’s self-verification system. It’s not perfect, but it beats closed source “trust us” machines outright.
We actually have a lot of this tech in less important areas already. It’s interesting and worrisome that our refusal to use it in voting seems to be political, not practical.