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Conference Proceedings EVOTE08 now online

e-voting.cc — 2009-08-06T13:32:00Z

Our Conference Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Electronic Voting, which was held from Evote087th to 9th of August 2008 in Castle Hofen, are now online. Exactly one year after the opening session we are glad to publish them on the web.

You can download the PDF here.

The EVOTE08 Conference is Now Online

k.stoebich — 2008-09-13T07:20:00Z

Here you can view all presentations of the 3rd International Conference on Electronic Voting 2008.
To watch the video's you will need MS Media Player. The webcast is brought to you by E-Voting.CC in cooperation with the team of monitorTV.

Thursday, 7th August 2008

Introductory Session

Video

Session 1: E-Voting Experiences

Robert Krimmer

Leontine Loeber

Slides

Video

Epp Maaten, Thad Hall

Slides

Video

Session 2: Empirical Findings of E-Voting

Session Chair: Gregor Wenda

Gabriel Katz, R. Michael Alvarez, Ernesto Calvo, Marcelo Escolar, Julia Pomares

Slides

Video

Alicia Kolar Prevost

Slides

Video

Session 3: Legal & Procedural Issues of E-Voting

Michael Remmert

Komminist Weldemariam, Adolfo Villafiorita, Andrea Mattioli

Slides

Video

Victor Morales-Rocha, Jordi Puiggali, Miguel Soriano

Slides

Video

Rotraud Gitter, Lucie Langer, Susanne Okunick, Zoi Opitz-Talidou

Slides

Handout

Video

Friday, 8th August 2008

Session 4: Comparison of E-Voting

Thad Hall

Robert Krimmer, Ronald Schuster

Slides

Video

John Sebes, Gregory A. Miler

Slides

Video

Session 5: Verification of E-Voting[

Melanie Volkamer

David Lundin

Slides

Video

Roberto Araújo, Peter Y. A. Ryan

Slides

Video

Session 6: Certification of E-Voting

Thomas Buchsbaum

Melanie Volkamer, Rüdiger Grimm

Slides

Video

Jordi Barrat i Esteve

Slides

Slides NEDAP

Video

Saturday, 9th August

Session 7: Technological Issues of E-Voting

Rüdiger Grimm

Jörg Helbach, Jörg Schwenk, Sven Schäge

Slides

Video

Rolf Oppliger, Jörg Schwenk, Christoph Löhr

Slides

Video

Presentations from the Workshops and Conference Closing

Robert Krimmer, Michael Remmert, Rüdiger Grimm

Video

Preliminary Programme for EVOTE08 is online now!

k.stoebich — 2008-06-27T15:12:00Z

The 3rd International Conference on E-Voting promises to become a meeting point for Experts from all over the world, discussing technical, social and legal aspects of E-Voting in the Castle Hofen, in Bregenz.

Like in the last years, we have had a double-blind review system to guarantee a high quality of speakers and papers for the Conference. In total we have received more than 30 contributions. The following papers were selected to be presented and discussed at the Conference:

Wednesday, 6th August

Pre-Conference Programme
(Admission is included in the participation fee)

09:00 Competition

19:00 Welcome Cocktail

Thursday, 7th August

09:00 Welcome Notes by Michael Remmert, Rüdiger Grimm and Robert Krimmer

Session 1: E-Voting Experiences
Chair: Robert Krimmer

11:00 E-Voting in the Netherlands; from General Acceptance to General Doubt in Two Years
Leontine Loeber

11:45 Improving the Transparency of Remote E-Voting: The Estonian Experience
Epp Maaten; Thad Hall

Session 2: Empirical Findings of E-Voting
Chair: Gregor Wenda

14:00 Assessing the Impact of E-Voting Technologies on Electoral Outcomes: an Analysis of Buenos Aires 2005 Congressional Election
Gabriel Katz, R. Michael Alvarez, Ernesto Calvo, Marcelo Escolar, Julia Pomares

14:45 Assessing Internet Voting as an Early Voting Reform in the United States
Alicia Kolar Prevost

Session 3: Legal & Procedural Issues of E-Voting
Chair: Susanne Caarls

16:00 A Methodology for Assessing Procedural Security: A Case Study in E-Voting
Komminist Weldemariam, Adolfo Villafiorita

16:45 Secure Remote Voter Registration
Victor Morales-Rocha, Jordi Puiggali, Miguel Soriano

17:30 Long-term Retention in E-Voting Legal Requirements and Technical Implementation
Rotraud Gitter, Lucie Langer, Susanne Okunick, Zoi Opitz-Talidou

18:15 International Programme Committee Meeting

19:30 Reception in Bregenz

Friday, 8th August

Session 4: Comparison of E-Voting
Chair: Thad Hall

09:00 The E-Voting Readiness Index: A Survey
Robert Krimmer, Ronald Schuster

09:45 Malfunction or Misfits: Comparing Requirements, Inputs, and Public Confidence Outcomes of E-Voting in the U.S. and Europe
John Sebes, Gregory A. Miler

Session 5: Verification of E-Voting
Chair: Melanie Volkamer

11:00 Simple and Secure Electronic Voting with Prêt à Voter
David Lundin

11:45 Improving the Farnel Voting Scheme
Roberto Araújo, Peter Y. A. Ryan

Session 6: Certification of E-Voting
Chair: Thomas Buchsbaum

14:00 Development of a Formal IT Security Model for Remote Electronic Voting Systems
Melanie Volkamer, Rüdiger Grimm

14:45 The Certification of E-Voting Mechanisms. Fighting against Opacity
Jordi Barrat i Esteve

16:00 Workshops
Workshop 1: Regulation & Certification
Workshop 2: Observation & Evaluation
Workshop 3: E-Voting - Where are we heading?

18:30 Conference Dinner & Best Paper Ceremony

Saturday, 9th August

Session 7: Technological Issues of E-Voting
Chair: Rüdiger Grimm

09:00 Code Voting with Linkable Group Signatures
Jörg Helbach, Jörg Schwenk, Sven Schäge

09:45 CAPTCHA-based Code Voting
Rolf Oppliger, Jörg Schwenk, Christoph Löhr

Session 8: Political Issues of E-Voting
Chair: Jordi Barrat

11:00 E-Voting in Brazil Reinforcing Institutions While Diminishing Citizenship
José Rodrigues Filho

11:45 The Voting Processes in Digital Participative Budget: A Case Study
Cristiano Maciel, Gleison Pereira de Souza

12:30 Closing Remarks by Robert Krimmer

Post-Conference Program
On Saturday evening, 9th August 2008, we have organized a social programme including a three-course dinner at the "Wirtshaus am See" nearby the floating stage as well as a visit to the Bregenz opera Tosca at the floating stage. Such a cultural highlight in the scenery of the new James Bond movie ('Quantum Solace' which will come to a cinema near you in Winter 2008) will be a bright finish of the conference for all its participants. The price for this social event ranges from EUR 61 to EUR 140 depending on the category of festival ticket you want to buy.

Pre-Registration for EVOTE08 starts!

k.stoebich — 2008-05-30T13:00:00Z

Registration for the 3rd International Conference on E-Voting is now open.
Just create an account and you can go forward :-)
You can also register by completing our Registration Form. Please send this form back by mail or fax (+43 1 3193950).

Preliminary Programme

Wednesday, 6th August 2008
The conference will start with a welcome cocktail on the day before the main conference.

19:00 Welcome Cocktail

Thursday, 7th August 2008
The main part of the conference starts on Thursday, 7th August 2008 in the morning.

09.00 Session 1
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Session 2
12:30 Lunch
14.00 Session 3
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Session 4
19:00 Reception in Bregenz

Friday, 8th August 2008
09:00 Session 5
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Session 6
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Session 7
15.30 Coffee Break
16.00 Session 8
19:00 Conference Dinner: Käsestraße

Saturday, 9th August
09:00 Session 9
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Session 10
12.30 Conference Closing with Lunch

Todate we currently have a rough schedule of the conference. We expect to have the correct schedule in place by beginning of June.

Pre-Conference Program
During the 6th of August 2008 starting at 09.00 there will be a pre-conference program hosting the e-voting competition 2008. Admission is included in the participation fee of EVOTE08.

Post-Conference Program
On Saturday evening, 9th August 2008, we have organized a social programme including a three-course dinner at the "Wirtshaus am See" nearby the floating stage as well as a visit to the Bregenz opera Tosca at the floating stage. Such a cultural highlight in the scenery of the new James Bond movie ('Quantum Solace' which will come to a cinema near you in Winter 2008) will be a bright finish of the conference for all its participants. The price for this social event ranges from EUR 61 to EUR 140 depending on the category of festival ticket you want to buy.

Accomodation
For speakers with accepted papers accomodation we have reserved rooms in the Castle Hofen.

For regular participants: please contact the tourism office Bodensee-Vorarlberg Tourismus. They will help you directly to find a room near the Conference location.

The registration fee covers participation in the social events. If you need a guest ticket for these events please consider informing us via the registration form or at any time later on till 30th of June 2008.

Registration
If you are not yet registered for the conference, please note that the regular registration period ends on 1st of July 2008 (regular conference fee 300 €, late registration fee 360 €).

You can register yourself via the Togather System by using this Link.

We are looking forward to your registration and to an interesting conference!

Reviews are out

robert.krimmer — 2008-04-16T14:37:00Z

Finally we could send out the notifications today - being late two days due to some technical problems.

Still I would like to take the opportunity and thank the over 80 reviewers who helped us evaluate the submissions!

Now the next round of the work starts for the authors - producing the camera-ready papers!

EVOTE08 official event within the Swiss Year of Informatics 2008

robert.krimmer — 2008-03-17T12:10:00Z

In Switzerland 2008 is the year of informatics. As part of this series of events, the "informatica" has selected EVOTE08 to become a part of their events. It is a great honor for us that we can join this important initiative in our neighbouring country only 10min away from our conference venue.

Thank you!

robert.krimmer — 2008-03-03T09:10:00Z

A big thank for all your submissions for the EVOTE08 conference. We are now organizing the review. We will be back in May with the preliminary programme!

Gesellschaft für Informatik FG ECOM co-organizes EVOTE08

robert.krimmer — 2008-02-25T06:54:00Z

Next to the Council of Europe, the expert group ECOM of the German Gesellschaft für Informatik, with its chairman professor Rüdiger Grimm, will co-organize the EVOTE08 conference in Schloss Hofen, this summer.

This also involves the publication of the EVOTE08 proceedings in the GI LNI series as in the previous years.

Online Submission System available now

robert.krimmer — 2008-02-05T09:06:00Z

We are happy to announce that our online submission system, using the Tog@ther System, is available now.

Please submit your papers for the 3rd International Electronic Voting Conference 2008 (EVOTE08) at http://evote08.togather.eu.

Alternatively you can also submit them through this direct link here.

In case of any questions please direct them to 2008@e-voting.cc or post them as a comment to this article.

EVOTE08 receives patronage from Council of Europe

robert.krimmer — 2008-01-09T12:47:00Z

The 3rd international conference on electronic voting (EVOTE08) is approaching in big steps. It's less than 2 months till the deadline for the submission of full papers. So hurry if you plan to write a paper.

The status of this conference is underlined by the - once again - support from the General Secretary of the Council of Europe who has granted the EVOTE08 conference the right to be held under his patronage.

This will help make EVOTE08 again a meeting place for reserachers, public servants and vendors in the field of electronic voting. Thanks!

First Call for Papers "3rd International Conference on Electronic Voting 2008...

robert.krimmer — 2007-08-20T06:05:00Z

The 3rd International Conference on
Electronic Voting 2008
(EVOTE08)

August, 6th to 9th 2008
Bregenz, Austria at Lake Constance

Organized by
Competence Center for Electronic
Voting and Participation (E-Voting.CC)

Download the folder here

This conference is the international meeting point for e-voting experts from all over the world to hold an interdisciplinary and open discussion of all issues electronic voting involves. It is the continuation of the successful 2004 & 2006 E-Voting conferences in the same location. Together 150 experts from 26 countries (and five continents) discussed electronic voting. The conference serves as the academic review conference for the Recommendations on electronic voting of the Council of Europe, and guarantees hereby heightened visibility for presentations and papers.

Aim
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The aim of this conference is to bring together e-voting specialists working in academia, politics, government and industry in order to

- Discuss all forms of electronic voting (including but not limited to
polling station, kiosk or remote voting by electronic means)
- Formulate the interdisciplinary issues involved (technology, law, politics
and society) in designing and implementing e-voting.
- Present new ways of solving the voting paradigm of unequivocal
identification of the voter and full anonymity of the vote.
- Report on implementations, their legal, organisational and technical framework, the project experience made, and future plans.
- Analyse the interrelationship with and the effects of e-voting on, democratic institutions and processes as well as voter behaviour.
- Conduct a social and political analysis of the effects of electronic voting.
- Report on practical experience in implementing and conducting elections with electronic voting parts.
- Discuss security requirements and testing in accordance to international security standards i.e. Common Criteria or ITSEC.
- Evaluate electronic voting, the effects of it and how to evaluate experiments.

The idea of this conference is to discuss the development in this field in a
3-day conference that deals with the topics from a theoretical view as well as
practical case studies.

Working language
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The working language of the conference will be English.

Venue
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The conference will be held in the beautiful Renaissance castle of Hofen at Lochau/Bregenz on the shores of Lake Constance in Austria. Sufficient space will be given to informal communications. An optional weekend program after the conference will be available including a mountain hiking trip and a visit of Tosca on the floating stage of the Bregenz Opera Festival (see www.bregenzerfestspiele.com).

Contributed papers
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The full paper submissions (double-spaced, 3500-4500 words excl. abstract, figures, references) will be subject to a double-blind review. Please submit anonymous submissions (with no reference to the authors). Electronic submissions shall be made through the platform provided at
www.e-voting.cc/2008, which serves as online-system for the review process.

Deadlines
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Full paper submission.................February, 29th 2008
Review deadline.......................March, 28th 2008
Notification of acceptance ...........April, 14th 2008
Receipt of the final paper............May, 9th 2008

Accommodation
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Speakers will be accommodated in the castle itself. For conference participants without papers rooms at hotels in walking distance are reserved.

Fee
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Regular Conference Fee 300 EUR (incl. VAT)
Late Registration Fee after July, 1st 2008 360 EUR (incl. VAT)

The registration fee covers participation in regular, poster and computer
sessions, one set of proceedings, welcome party, coffee and non-alcoholic
drinks, conference dinner and three lunches.

If a registration is cancelled before July, 1st 2008, 50 percent of the
registration fee will be refunded. No refund will be made after this date.
The proceedings will be sent by mail in any case.

Publication
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All papers accepted for the conference will appear in the conference proceedings. The conference proceedings are intended to appear as an edition
in the GI Lecture Notes Series like in the previous years.

The best papers will be invited to a special issue on "ICT in the electoral process" of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics.

Best Paper Award
----------------

The IPC will award the best contribution presented at the conference.

Funding
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Limited funding is available to PhD students on application basis. Please
apply by 30th of June to phd@e-voting.cc with the following content: title
and a short (1 page) abstract of your phd and why you want to take part in
the conference.

PDF of Last Years Proceedings
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For reference purposes you can have a look at the proceedings of last years
conferences which are available at http://www.e-voting.cc/2008.

International Programme Committee
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M. Alvarez, USA
F. Bannister, Ireland
J. Barrat, Spain
J. Benaloh, USA
N. Braun, Switzerland
T. Buchsbaum, Austria
C. Enguehard, France
S. French, United Kingdom
R. Grimm, Germany
T. Hall, USA
C. Imamura, Brazil
S. Kim, South Korea
N. Kersting, South Africa
R. Krimmer, Austria
L. Monnoyer-Smith, France
H. Nurmi, Finland
W. Polasek, Switzerland
M. Remmert, France
J. Reniu, Spain
F. Ruggeri, Italy
K. Sako, Japan
B. Schoenmakers, Netherlands
R. Stein, Austria
D. Tokaji, USA
A. Trechsel, Italy
P. Vora, USA
M. Volkamer, Germany
D. Wallach, USA
G. Wenda, Austria

General Enquiries
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Competence Center for Electronic
Voting and Participation (E-Voting.CC)

Pyrkergasse 33/1/2
A-1190 Vienna, Austria

Phone: +43/1/3193950
Fax: +43/1/3193955
E-Mail: 2008@e-voting.cc
Web: www.e-voting.cc/2008

E-Voting.CC is registered under 381272452 (ZVR) as an Austrian charitable association.

Proceedings of 2004 and 2006

robert.krimmer — 2007-08-20T05:55:00Z

The proceedings of the 2004 and 2006 conferences are available for download on this website. Follow these links:

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Electronic Voting in Europe 2004

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Electronic Voting 2006