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Does that apply to ballots as well?
From the control aspect yes. Reject proprietary digital system, accept open source systems. Tho in a voting system people are still too ignorant to bother with verification so paper becomes safer because it's easier to understand for the average Joe, at least in theory.
That said, there's plenty of ways to cheat with paper too, complexity, drop boxes, mules, cover up the windows and kick out the observers are just a few examples.
Even open source will have issues. Machines work in levels from components through drivers and operating systems to apps and databases. We have seen how Supermicro had some Chinese-made motherboards "infected" with rogue bugs. Some of us will remember how Intel had a bug in their Pentium processors.
Even if the software you know about is open source it is difficult to prove that that is the code that actually ran. Although paper systems have issues adding something else on top just increases the opportunity for cheating.
All that is before you add the situation where users can insert USB sticks into the machines. Extra code could be written into hidden sectors, for instance.
Then there is the possibility of invisible wireless links like wifi or Bluetooth.
Here is a voting machine demo