It sounds like the technical problem is that they spent more time thinking about cryptography itself than they did about the prudent application of it.
Confidentiality that undermines availability might be good cryptography but it violates basic tenets of information security.
we have encountered a fatal technical problem that prevents us from concluding the election and accessing the final tally,
How is someone losing their key a "technical problem"?
we will adopt a 2-out-of-3 threshold mechanism for the management of private keys
The trustee responsible has resigned so why weaken security going forward?
I would have thought cryptography experts losing keys would be pretty rare, like a fire at a Sea Parks.
It sounds like the technical problem is that they spent more time thinking about cryptography itself than they did about the prudent application of it.
Confidentiality that undermines availability might be good cryptography but it violates basic tenets of information security.
Nerds do tend to forget that people make procedural errors.
in other words, someone didnt like the election results
https://archive.is/NOnfx