[pfranz]

One problem at a time. This wasn't specifically intended to address disenfranchisement. But commoditizing the infrastructure helps protect against "we don't have enough resources to let all these people in an underserved community vote."

In previous (recent) elections you hear about voting machines sitting in storage or running out of paper ballots. Having a mature and open voting infrastructure allows old, commodity hardware to be used (including paper) instead of expensive, proprietary machines that can go "out of date" and "no longer supported/updated."