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The main point is that it is a lot easier to trust something you can understand than some black-box machine certified by experts. Thus, eletronic voting systems are more vulnerable to trust attacks.
> This creates another attack avenue, that is, you don't attack the results of the ballot, but you attack the entire system. You discredit the system because it is complicated, you use the limited understanding of the voter base to invalidate the results.
That is exactly what Bolsonaro did. He effectively proved the system is vulnerable to a trust attack... it does not matter if the system is safe from tampering if a significant part of the voters do not trust the system.
But this issue has become so politicized in Brazil that it has become impossible to discuss it reasonably. Pointing out any flaws in it is interpreted as an "attack to democracy".
I would argue that an election system in which fraud is easy but obvious for everyone when present is more robust than a system in which fraud is hard but impossible for anyone to see.
Calling this guy a hacker is a joke... as is this whole story. He is a scammer who got famous for accessing phone numbers of authorities using tricks he learned while scamming bank clients.
Pretty sure Leetcode subscription costs more than R$150 :) .
But yeah, if you are Donald Knuth, you can probably make more money in other places... if its important for you.