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The Brazilian design for voting machines addresses most of those concerns in a nice way. I couldn’t find a full description in English but Wikipedia has a few bits: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Brazil

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respectfully, that article simply repeats variations of scenarios tom brings up in his video;)

pick any part of the process in that article and ask "how do you know that the black box is trustworthy?" , in the context of assuming that some nation states have a vested interest in messing with the process...

Unfortunately that article is weak on the actual security mechanisms. Each step adds a layer of security. To affect the results of the election you need to compromise multiple of them.

Here’s a translated page that goes into detail: https://www-tse-jus-br.translate.goog/o-tse/escola-judiciari...

It sounds like the random selection of machines for the parallel "mock election" is intended to help with that issue.

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