[hairy_man674]

Not ought but must. It's a fundamental concept in system security known as as Kerckhoffs's Principle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

The rationale is to allow anybody to audit the system, so that soundness of the design can be proven against an adversary with perfect knowledge of it.

And yet Americans let companies enforce intellectual property rights over systems whose security (flaws) could change your vote...

update: Bruce Schneier on security of electronic voting: https://www.opendemocracy.net/media-voting/article_2213.jsp