I also saw that one, and it's a good one.
But I disagree that it's impossible to have an unbeatable voting system. It's just that it would require a whole lot of effort and a huge financial cost and willingness to invest into hardcore security, like PKI to guarantee cryptographic proof of every vote's origin (not necessarily of the identity of the voter, since it needs to be anonymous) , secure channels to ensure tamper-proofing of the requests sent from each voting station. Or as a last measure, why not have a completely separate network that's off the grid. Since DDoS attacks would also be a possibility.
And his arguments that you'd have to trust software audits kind of falls short. The way it's done now you have to trust a lot more people. The people at the voting booths, the people transporting them, the people counting them. And in countries where corruption is rampant, I doubt they have any real audits on the process. At least I'm pretty sure that's the situation here in Romania.
I don't know, but I hardly believe the current voting process is anything close to being able to trust it.
Found another interesting video on this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izddjAp_N4I
I haven't thought it very thoroughly, but what he's sayings sounds ok, at least better than the current process. I imagine the QRCode stores the configuration between question order and the receipt which has the actual vote, which gets scanned. And it also serves as an identifier for your vote.
And as long as you get a random QRCode they won't trace the vote back to you, as long as you keep the receipt secret. Sounds better than what we, in my country have, imo.
And the auditing being able to be done by everyone would make sure this doesn't go unnoticed. Of course, that begs the question what should happen if votes do go missing, or issues appear. There would have to be serious consequences for the people in charge of the process. And also people would have to be properly trained in this electoral process. And have support lines for this, lines where you submit issues, etc. And the whole deal. Jesus, I imagine this would be a nightmare to manage. But, still better than the "i drop my vote in there, and have no idea what's going on next, maybe I don't even care, and have no way to check on it, ". Anyway, that's just one example. I'm sure if they'd put their minds to it, the best crypto-analysts, cryptographers and security experts could design something feasible. If the interests were there to do this. But there probably is no such interest to keep elections honest