Yup. Voting has received a dizzying amount of academic research. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible to innovate, but diving into that field without an advisor that’s familiar is a recipe for years of rediscovering existing results.
Also there's was a lot of over enthusiasm about moving voting to remote and online that took a while to get people to realize the major pitfalls they were setting up.
Did anyone ever solve the issue of vote verification (a voter being able to verify that their vote was counted) being a massive threat to vote secrecy? ie they're threatened to vote for Candidate X by a group and forced to show a verification they did?
We already know how to do this, it's policy that the hard part at this point from my understanding.