Here it is - our preliminary programme folder for the EVOTE2010 conference! To download the folder, klick the image on the right.

For your conference registration book via: http://www.e-voting.cc/stories/6316135/

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Wednesday, 21st of July 2010
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Pre-Conference Programme
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14:00 Invited Seminar, hosted by the Council of Europe:
Implementing e-enabled elections: the key steps

18:00 Polyas Welcome Cocktail in Castle Hofen
Conference registration at the reception desk

Thursday, 22nd July 2010
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Official Conference Programme
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07:30-08:50 Conference registration at the reception desk of Castle Hofen

09:00 Welcome Notes
by Michael Remmert, Robert Krimmer

09:20 Keynote
By Donetta Davidson,
Chair U.S. Election Assistance Commission

10:00 Coffee Break

Session 1: Recent Developments in E-Voting
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10:30 Voting Technology and the Election Experience:
The 2009 Gubernatorial Races in New Jersey and Virginia
Charles Stewart, R. Michael Alvarez, Thad Hall

11:10 The Use of E-Voting in the Federation of Students Elections 2009
Robert Krimmer, Andreas Ehringfeld, Markus Traxl

11:50 Scantegrity Mock Election at Takoma Park
Alan Sherman, Richard Carback, David Chaum, Jeremy Clark,
John Conway, Aleksander Essex, Paul Herrnson, Travis
Mayberry, Stefan Popoveniuc, Ronald Rivest, Emily Shen,
Bimal Sinha, Poorvi Vora

12:30 Lunch

Session 2: Sociocultural Issues of E-Voting
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14:00 The Role of Trust, Participation and Identity
in the Propensity to E- & I-Vote
Letizia Caporusso

14:40 The Virtual Polling Station? Transferring
the Sociocultural Effect of Pollsite
Elections to Remote Internet Voting
Philipp Richter

15:20 Coffee Break

Session 3: Certification and Evaluation of E-Voting Systems
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15:40 A Formal IT-Security Model for the Correction
and Abort Requirement on Electronic Voting
Rüdiger Grimm, Katharina Hupf, Melanie Volkamer

16:20 Compliance of POLYAS with the Common Criteria
Protection Profile
Niels Menke, Kai Reinhard

17:00 Trends in the Development of E-Voting Systems
Komminist Weldemariam, Adolfo Villafiorita

18:00 International Program Committee Meeting
(for IPC members)

19:00 Bus shuttle to Bregenz from Castle Hofen

19:30 Reception in Downtown Bregenz
hosted by the Regional Government of Vorarlberg

Friday, 23rd July 2010
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Session 4: Operation and Evaluation of E-Voting Systems
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09:00 An Evaluation and Certification Approach to Enable Voting Service Providers
Axel Schmidt, Melanie Volkamer, Johannes Buchmann

09:40 Operational Issues of a High Security Computation Centre
Carl-Markus Piswanger

10:20 Coffee Break

Session 5: End to End Verfifiability and Protocol Improvements
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10:40 Verifiability in Electronic Voting? Explanations for
non security experts
Rojan Gharadaghy, Melanie Volkamer

11:20 Verification Systems for Electronic Voting: A Survey
Jordi Pujol-Ahulló, Roger Jardí-Cedó, Jordi Castellà-Roca

12:00 Sigma Ballots
Stefan Popoveniuc, Andrew Regenscheid

12:40 Lunch

Session 6: E-Voting Experiences
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14:00 Electronic Elections in a Politicized Polity
Thad Hall, Leontine Loeber

14:40 Double-Entry Accounting Provides Software-Independent Algorithm
for Confirming the Integrity of Automated Election Tallies
Roberto Verzola

15:20 Analysis of the Recommendation Rec2004(11) based on Experiences
of Attacks against the first legally binding E-Voting
in Austria
Andreas Ehringfeld, Robert Krimmer, Markus Traxl

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Council of Europe Plenary Discussion

18:30 Best Paper Award Ceremony

19:00 Conference Dinner Käsestrasse in Castle Hofen,
a Regional Specialty

Saturday, 24th July 2010
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Session 7: Discussion of E-Voting Protocols
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09:30 Universally Verifiable Efficient Re-Encryption Mixnet
Jordi Puiggali, Sandra Guasch

10:10 Why Public Registration Boards are Required in E-Voting Systems Based on Threshold Blind Signature Protocols
Reto Koenig, Eric Dubuis

10:40 Coffee Break

Session 8: Theoretical and Practical Implications of E-Voting
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11:00 Coercion-Resistant Hybrid Voting Systems
Oliver Spycher, Rolf Haenni

11:40 E-voting in Japan: A developing case?
Masahiro Iwasaki

12:20 Closing Remarks

12:30 Outlook

12:45 Lunch

Post Conference Program
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(not included in the conference fee)

15:00 Bregenz City Guided Tour

17:00 Bregenz Festival Guided Tour onto the Floating Stage

18:30 Festival Dinner nearby the Bregenz Floating Stage

21:00 Bregenz Opera AIDA on the Floating Stage