Software of such importance should be scrutinized by the people, and ultimately owned by the people as an apparatus of the Government. It should be fully transparent, from the software it runs, to the hardware that it runs on.

A secure ballot collection and counting device should not become less secure because of its source code being viewable.

Checksums and hashes can be used to quickly validate that devices are running untainted images of the software.

It can be written by the greatest minds on either side of the aisle, and be reviewed and collaborated on by the other side of the aisle, through cyclic bipartisan committees that over see the development.

It can be versioned, tracked, and become an important part of the US Historical Libraries going forward.