The point is not open source code. You still have to place trust in the system and the people executing it. While this is also true for a paper based manual-cou

The point is not open source code. You still have to place trust in the system and the people executing it. While this is also true for a paper based manual-counted system the later is so transparent to anyone that cheating becomes very very difficult. Source code will never be transparent to anyone but programmers.