I'm glad to see New Hampshire still has paper ballots doing this. Pure electronic voting (IMHO) should be banned. Either you should fill out a ballot that a computer can verify or use a touchscreen that produces a paper (filled-in) ballot.
As for open source, I don't think it matters. I mean, even if the software is open soruce, how do you know what the machine is running? Are you going to build it yourself and verify hashes? Can you?
Don't get me wrong: open source for something like this is a good idea. Experts should be able to verify this. It just won't stop claims of election fraud because those largely aren't based on a lack of transparency but rather political expeidency.
As for open source, I don't think it matters. I mean, even if the software is open soruce, how do you know what the machine is running? Are you going to build it yourself and verify hashes? Can you?
Don't get me wrong: open source for something like this is a good idea. Experts should be able to verify this. It just won't stop claims of election fraud because those largely aren't based on a lack of transparency but rather political expeidency.