Hey!
Luis here from Shutter (we worked with Snapshot to implement the shielded voting using threshold encryption).
It’s awesome to see this proposal and the active discussion around it!
To put it simply, shielded voting seems preferable (and that’s why real election voting works like this), due to higher information symmetry at the time of vote. We think this leads to less voter apathy and less manipulation/strategic voting.
It doesn’t prevent bribery or enhance individual voters privacy.
We also don’t think it negatively affects auditability/transparency, because all results will be public and auditable afterwards.
Ping us or the Snapshot team if you have more questions! We’d love to help and gather feedback during this trial, if the vote passes!