> lot of people were called crazy or worse for believing it might be possible

Sorry, when were questions about Slovenia’s voting system considered crazy?

Who would say that? Elections are rigged all the time.

Mueller correctly stated there was an orchestrated disinformation campaign by Russia. That's different than Russians under voting tables stuffing ballots in their pockets. some like to conflate the two so that they can call it all the 'russia hoax'

Conflict of interests. We were told these things by the very same people who have an interest to rigging an election :-)

at some point, this problem boils down to something like trusting trust and I think that the answer might be similar to how stage0 in compilers work in that smaller stages which can be easily audited combine/compile together to form larger stages. (Not sure if this allegory fits at the moment but I do feel like decentralization can definitely help in these cases which is my point but these same people who told that it wasn't possible aren't looking for/actively hindering any prospects of decentralization due to once again, conflict of interests)

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