Plan to allow internet voting in Washington, DC

A proposal to allow internet voting in Washington, DC, now has the lobbying muscle of a rich venture capitalist.

In addition to the inherent insecurity of this procedure, it would naturally be set up so that you vote while watching political disinformation ads on the same screen.

I am not impressed by making it "open source", because

• If the client program as released by its developers is free/libre, that won't guarantee that the version voters run is free/libre. The former could be released under a pushover license and the latter could be a nonfree version of it.
• Even if the version voters run is free/libre, that won't guarantee you don't get a corrupted version to use for your vote. That can always happen — there is always someone in a position to do it.
• As for the server part of the system, you can never be confident that someone won't corrupt it in the server. Inevitably either the election authority or the developer of the program can do it.