I’m not letting some billionaire vibecode his way into the white house…again

That literally never happened. He simply told people what they wanted to hear and told them who to blame for all of their issues. Those being easily verifiable lies didn't make a difference to enough people.

There wasn't a high tech exploit, or even a low tech exploit. Just the human exploit. The same thing that results in 99% of technology "hacks", social engineering. The human is always the weakest link.

This is.... All wrong?

Sure, if someone manages to "crack" a cryptographic system, they may be able to manipulate results, but like...that's really unlikely. And even when it does happen, a lot of times there are a lot of constraints on cracks of cryptographic systems that mean that the system still offers a lot of protection even if it should be revised (e.g. a crack may mean it only takes 5 years to crack something that we thought would take til the end of the universe to crack or something like that)

Paper is also manipulable? Like you can just forge someone's signature or have a different peice of paper and say it was theirs even if they voted for someone else really. Vote counters are fallible, what if someone casts two paper ballots counted by two different people? There are all kinds of ways paper ballots can be defrauded.

But vote fraud needs done at scale and really only works when the state is absolutely flailing in it's ability to maintain order.

A much simpler solution with many other benefits is to simply stricture society so that government positions are positions of service, not power...which is what all democracies claim to strive for in the first place, however disingenuously it is made when it's empires and settler colonies. But that is the key: one doesn't even need to be voted in if there is only service and not power in the role. They can just...sign up and will be thanked for helping society run.

Edit: also lmao at the idea of vibe coded cryptographic voting.