The secret to better tech is rebuilding everything from scratch. The internet wasn't designed with security and bad actors in mind. Plenty of corporations are running a Frankenstein system that contains code older than most millennials, botched modernization efforts, buzzword laden over-engineered applications, and bugs that aren't features just permanent residents in your code base.

Rebuilding everything from scratch will take ages and cost everyone a lot of money, because you have to replace all your hardware (router boxes, PC s, phones, smart watches, ...), because the internet protocols are often designed into the hardware itself, and changing them fundamentally means a lot of trash. Also there is no system that guarantees that the result will have fewer issues or will not required to be succeeded by something else a couple of minutes later, because some new issue was discovered.

Also software is highly complex and need to adapt to many different scenarios, while maintaining compatibility to each other, which the other disciplines of human engineering don't have to deal with as much, they are much more purpose driven.

It is like trying to create a universal building code (for building houses) that simultaneously works on every country on earth, hell, maybe even on multiple planets, with wildly different and constantly changing environments and is guaranteed to result in save houses. Not really possible in one shot, only possible by constantly trying to adapt. That is what software has to deal with. I am talking about fundamental software like the Linux kernel here, for example.

You cannot just start over and be better.

What does the Brazilian electronic voting system do that allows you to trust it? I'm not trying to bait or anything I know nothing about it and want to be informed.

Luckily in many European countries it is not used.

I would credit institutions like the chaos computer club and other non-profits, which where instrumental in convincing the government about the dangers. It was a difficult battle against the corporate lobbyists, and is understandable that other countries could not fight against the corporate interests or corruption and succumb to use them.

There where and still are so many issues with them, one of the most fundamental is described by Ken Thompson in his Reflections on trusting trust, which is especially effective for electronic voting machines, where no other way of verification is possible.

Enough with this American take

Huston or whereever you are, you have problem. I live on other side of the pond. More specifically in certain biggest country, where Ella Pamfilova can pull out any number she wants from remote electronic voting.

electronic voting works fine in Brazil

It works here as intended too. Wins elections for Putin's mafia.

only right wingers complain about it

4chanland, you have another problem. Putin is right wing. And he is super happy about it.

and the American ones also complained about their paper votes when they lose.

I don't know what Americans complain about when they loose.

Wait...wasn't that a movie too?

Do you know the difference between warehouse inventory management and a database?

You are probably talking about the arctic vault.

They use film for extreme archival purposes that are not representative of anything normal.

Qr codes can be great but they obviously need to interact somehow (not directly I hope) with a real database.

If you look a floppy disk from a weird angle, it will get a bad sector