I am under the exact same impression. Many smart people repeatedly advocate deploying e-voting systems without understanding the basic underlying problems, whic

I am under the exact same impression. Many smart people repeatedly advocate deploying e-voting systems without understanding the basic underlying problems, which are not technical in nature. I don't think even homomorphic cryptography helps when it's possible to physically stand behind a remote voter and witness exactly what they vote. So yes, the only reliable way to vote is to require every voter to enter a physically controlled area in which they are guaranteed the privacy of secret voting. If they can vote anywhere else, they can be coerced to voting according to someone else's will, whether that's a family member, a briber, a foreign agent or some other kind of oppressor.