Every field has counter-intuitive things that outsiders don't understand. In infosec, this is probably the top one: security comes from transparency not obscurity.
In other words, people naturally assume that hiding vulnerabilities is needed to keep things secure. The opposite is true: we can only achieve security by making vulnerabilities obvious.
Now elections may be a special case to this. That's because security is only half the problem. We need to not only have secure systems that are secure, but also systems that voters trust are secure. Secure systems that are nonetheless distrusted by voters are still a problem.
But you know what enables trust? Transparency.
So for both reasons, we need more transparency, even of embarassing data, especially of embarassing data.
