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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.

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

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!

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.

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