Open Source Voting

An open-source system to be developed for the 2010 election. using open source for the election would mean disaster. 1st it is developed by people who have an idea of how to build a system but who did not have an experience on how to create an open-source voting system that was really applied in other parts of the globe. open source would run on an operating system that is open source, this would mean linux? It has its own source code, it can easily be manipulated and worse people who created it has the only capablity to control it. Then knowing for a fact that it is not a tried and tested system, not known in the market, monopolized by a certain group of people, I dont think this is a very secure election indeed. A public database? We must recognize for a fact that in many ways, data are all collected in the main server, which I believe that this main server will be the source of data for these so called public results. Another question that I have is; How can you be sure that data fed through the main server are the real data that really came in from the remote sites ( from the voting centers). My friends, having an open source system is risky, there is nobody to point the blame at it but the group of people who created it, paid by the government, paid by the present administration. If you allow this to happen, it is just like you allowed massive cheating to happen even before the election started.