Even if you make your software open source and have the top security experts pour over the code and have a transparent process for how it gets deployed... laype

Even if you make your software open source and have the top security experts pour over the code and have a transparent process for how it gets deployed... laypeople won't trust it. In fact, quite the opposite, the more you focus on security, the less people are likely to trust it. Our government's legitimacy is based on trust in our elections. I may not like who wins all the time, but I more or less feel that the wins are legitimate in the US. But if you erode this basic trust, then the government can't function.