> The government isn’t an amorphous entity that responds to its master’s demands and yet history tells us that governments do conspire and that the times we've

> The government isn’t an amorphous entity that responds to its master’s demands and yet history tells us that governments do conspire and that the times we've been made aware of it happening after the fact are likely not the only times it has happened. In the case of voting machines the government doesn't even need to be directly involved. If all of the code used isn't open source and publicly available, if the hardware is closed and inaccessible to the public for auditing and review by experts, and if there is no paper trail to interdependently verify the results then the entire system is impossible to trust by design.