Or are you saying that every individual voter needs to understand the inner workings of the system for it to be effective?
Um, yea. That's what "public vote count" means.
As for the technical competence of our nation's election administrators, have you not been paying attention? I've met many many. Great at elections. Terrible at computers. Completely and utterly reliant on the vendors. Who've manifestly demonstrated their complete inability to code their way out of a wet paper bag, much less be entrusted with the foundations of our democracy.