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There’s no need to compromise. When it comes to making elections trustworthy, we should pull out all the stops, even if it’s slightly inconvenient to make the software open source.

Does any company offer a competitive voting machine with open source software?

> I don’t see security flaws with closed source software that prints backup paper ballots.

There's room for asymmetric errors in input, in the direction of a favored candidate. Still way better than the kinds that are electronic only, but not as good as paper-first.

Security through obscurity is a horrible way to secure anything, but especially voting machines.