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> I will trust this system of humans counting any day over a sum function in a database implemented by a private company with their own agenda

How about over an open source one? I have occationally thought of starting a kickstarter for an open-source voting system. It would be completely open- even down to choosing an open-source processor, and completely and transparently audited.

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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.

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