Idiot Loses Key, locks himself out

The International Association of Cryptologic Research has cancelled its annual leadership election after... Whatever this is...
Unfortunately, one of the three morons has irretrievably lost their private key, an honest but unfortunate human mistake, and therefore cannot compute their decryption share," the IACR said. "As a result, Helios is unable to complete the decryption process, and it is technically impossible for us to obtain or verify the final outcome of this election.
An entirely understandable mistake, I just assume all these people are idiots.