Ask HN: Are there good reasons to not open-source voting machine software
Hi all, I wish to keep this apolitical and focus strictly on the technology from our perspective as developers/technologists.
If voting software and machines were government owned and they wished to open source the software for the sake of transparency - would there be any good reason not to do this?
There would no doubt be some benefits to making the code publicly accessible, a lot of which we see from the open source world already.
Are there any risks that would outweigh some of the benefits of open-sourcing or making code visible?
I’m trying to counterbalance the argument for open source code.
If voting software and machines were government owned and they wished to open source the software for the sake of transparency - would there be any good reason not to do this?
There would no doubt be some benefits to making the code publicly accessible, a lot of which we see from the open source world already.
Are there any risks that would outweigh some of the benefits of open-sourcing or making code visible?
I’m trying to counterbalance the argument for open source code.