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Electronic Voting: Software Attacks Scale Beyond Paper Elections

Tom Scott · Explainer · YouTube title: Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea
Why it's here

HN treats it as the go-to layperson-friendly argument against e-voting and links it in nearly every voting-technology thread.

What it covers

Tom Scott explains why electronic voting is a bad idea. Elections must be trusted by everyone and attacks on software scale in ways attacks on paper do not, so open source or blockchain fixes do not solve it.