Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea

What this video 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.

Why it surfaced in Hacker News

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

Recommendation context

Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.

“Tom Scott still has the best argument against e-voting IMO [1].”

“Tom Scott made an excellent summary of why electronic voting is a bad idea”

“remains the most convincing argument to me that it's a bad idea”