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Vitalik Buterin discusses receipt‑free voting and MACI in Interfold blog
The Interfold blog post features a conversation with Vitalik Buterin, Millie of Trueo, and Auryn Macmillan about receipt‑free voting and the accountability trap. They explain that receipt‑freeness prevents voters from proving how they voted, aiming to resist coercion, and contrast it with private voting. The discussion introduces MACI (Minimal Anti‑Collusion Infrastructure), a voting system using encrypted messages and zero‑knowledge proofs, while noting the coordinator’s trust role. Auryn connects this to Interfold’s work on distributing the coordinator function, and Millie expands the topic to prediction markets and oracle design for confidential coordination.