As you know, election administration is more than tabulation. Maps, candidate filings, voter guides, voting records, designing ballots (artwork), poll books, canvasing reports, etc.

I traveled my state advocating open source software. I called it "citizen owned software). It's a slum dunk with voters (tax payers). And it's how things used to be.

The gatekeepers (blockers) are the election admins who outsource to their cronies. They even invent make-work just to have more cheddar for their cronies. Like signature verification and ballot tracking.