[mspecter]

Hey all, coauthor here. Interesting to see it on Hacker News.

I'm a professor in Georgia Tech's CS dept that works on problems related to security, privacy, and public policy. (CV: https://mikespecter.com/)

Happy to answer any questions you all have.

[kuerbel]

Have you had a look at the Swiss post e-voting system and how it deals with verification?

[mspecter]

I have not personally, but there's some fantastic work on the subject: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9152765?signou...

They find a few really bad issues. IIRC, the Swiss Post is looking into improving it, with the consultation of real cryptographers, so we'll see how that goes!

[stoneforger]

Voting needs to be auditable and verifiable by the lowest common denominator, to the last voter. As such anything that involves anything more complicated than counting by hand is out.