Security by obscurity - just one more way to hide what you are doing...
Truth be told, how can the citizenry accept a committee refusing senate ordes and FOIA requests ?
Is it not time to stand up and demand fully transparent government, is it not time perhaps to put an end to more than 4 years in office.
Is it not time to implement perhaps something like a meritocratic process for the elected to ensure our western governments are not run by nincompoops only looking out for themselves and in politics for the sake of power and money, why on earth would you want to keep secret how elections are being held. It is only by open scrutiny and failsafe mechanisms one can ensure free and open elections.
Do we not send observers out in the world to ensure we see free open elections taking place, do we not criticize when we do not see such open and free elections.
What is the difference between looking at abstract code and a human being looking at how counting is being done manually.... zero !!!
In fact having humans peruse the code is comparable to having observers observe an election to make sure the code performs the task properly.
Just like our government seem to like to spy on their people, following their every sms, their every phone conversation, their every email, their every opinion, perhaps it is time for the people to "spy" on their government by having responsible politicians put into effect completely open voting systems and laws opening up every aspect of government and demand complete insight into the electoral process going on inside the voting machines.
One could perhaps even consider a lottery where people are selected for for civil service for a period of some years and placed in a non refusable position at some time in your life, age naturally with a guarantee of ability to continue in jobs etc. after ended service.
This way you will eliminate the"livelihood politicians" i.e. those who have chosen politics as their livelihood, some even jumping perhaps from party to party, from "belief to belief" according to public opinion just to be able to cling on to a well paid seat in parliament or elsewhere in the system.
The same should be done for the civil servants so as to ensure we not in reality are governed by a group of civil servants while the elected perform democratic theater thinking they are in control.
The task of any politicians and the political system as a whole should be to ensure that the citizens are free to live their lives as unrestricted as possible, to create a society that allows the individual as much freedom as possible to live life in a way of that individuals choosing. To create the framework where within jobs can be created by the productive citizens of a country.
The western democracies need a complete reboot so that the slide towards secret corporate run governments can be averted. We need to free government from undue influence from all power structures other that the citizens themselves.
This refusal is a prime example why it is time to wake up and take action before it is to late !!!