What I mean is a variation of all of the above. Transparency, an open license, collaboration, distribution, best practices and more. Clearly I do not expect d

What I mean is a variation of all of the above. Transparency, an open license, collaboration, distribution, best practices and more. Clearly I do not expect districts to independently inspect and verify source code any more that we are inspecting and verifying the web server running this website. Computers (or at a minimum binaries) could be distributed and have self checking as the boot. They could simply be used to tally paper ballots (as others have mentioned) or to transmit votes. The overarching point is if we can do 5 trillion dollars of electronic money transfers worldwide per DAY certainly we can use open source to accurately, securely and transparently count and tally votes. Do we need even more governmental oversight? I would like to see a bulletproof technological solution that I personally can verify if I choose to.