Ensuring Unbiased Proposal Evaluation and Voting: A Secure Protocol for Transparent and Fair Decision-Making in Collaborative Environments

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Our goal, is to design and implement a multi-stage voting protocol for DAO that ensures partial anonymity and eliminates bias and halo effect at every stage.

The protocol functions as follows:

Proposal Submission: Proposers submit their proposals with the content encrypted while their identities remain visible. This approach ensures transparency in knowing who is submitting, but removes bias based on proposal content.

Proposal Shuffle and Reveal: After the submission deadline, proposals are decrypted and revealed without disclosing proposers' identities. This ensures voting is based purely on the merit of the proposals, eliminating bias towards proposers.

Voting: During the voting phase, votes remain private. Both the voter and the multi-party protocol managing the votes can identify which proposal belongs to which voter, ensuring voters cannot vote for themselves.

Final Reveal: Once the voting period concludes, the proposers' identities are revealed together with all of the votes, the proposer of the winning proposal may be awarded.