Sure. Works great if you have a small number of people - let’s say three - and you expect to receive three results and receive a result.
Not relevant to voting for several reasons.
First - it’s very difficult to imagine using those kinds of techniques when you don’t actually know who’s going to vote.
Second - it’s readily prone to manipulation. You have to trust that everyone will follow the rules and not inject random noise into the process.
Third - anyone who participates will get their actual vote shredded and mixed with a bunch of other votes. It vanishes into the process, and out comes… a result. They cannot verify that their vote was actually counted, and therefore have no basis of trust in the process. If the process isn’t straightforward enough for the average voter to understand, then they’re not going to trust it.
The system that I described in my first post is extraordinarily straightforward. A child can understand how it works.
You apparently haven’t looked at any of the E2E accountable systems out there.
I have. Many of them are painfully contorted in pursuit of absolute secrecy and absolute transparency, and are so overcomplicated that voters must simply trust the math to work out. These tortured solutions are dead ends, and they enable opponents to say: “Electronic voting is impossible to secure, so let’s just stick with tried-and-true paper ballots.”
The e-voting research community is spinning its wheels in pursuit of a perfect system. It’s like classical AI: everyone was so sure that AI could be accomplished and would be available soon, that they spent decades chasing these unworkably complicated mathematical models. It took a group rethink to step back and say: “Maybe we should stop trying to invent an artificial mind, and instead develop things that are small and practical, like pattern-recognition neural networks, that we can use everywhere.” The same is happening with e-voting; perfect solutions will remain a mirage, until someone steps forward and says: “What’s really important here?” … cue the types of processes I described above.
