That isn't true. The banks have been "eating losses" caused by electronic theft, and keeping it unpublicized, in order to "maintain the faith of their clients". There have been quite a few stories written on this, typically someone (inside) electronically rips off an account, the victim starts to scream, and the bank just returns the money out of it's profits, and it's written up as a loss of some kind. When the security people finally track down the culprit, they are typically let off, if they promise to keep their mouth's shut.

So the banking system, only appears secure (albeit it is beyond me to hack it), but insiders can have a field day ripping them off. So think what insiders could do to rig elections? Even if they are traced down a year later, it is too late.

The only way is to have an open system, is where there is a paper trail, an audit number for each vote cast, redundant hard drives to store the data,( with them stored and transported separately), and freely inspected source code.

Perl would be perfect for this, because it is alot more understandable than C.

You have to face up to the fact that the people in power "want the ability to fix elections", it's the only way they will be able to control elections as the population of poor and underprivileged grows, to where the fat-cats would be voted down in fair elections. All the BS they put out, on the need for secret source code, is just pulling the wool over the eyes of the sheep.