From today on the video stream of the EVOTE2010 - 4th international conference on Electronic Voting, is available.

If you follow the below lsited links, you are forwarded to the website hosting the videos.

This year, we offer you the possibility to watch the video of the presentations and see the presentation slides in parallel.

Video and Slides for Conference Day1: Video Day1

Video and Slides for Conference Day2: Video Day2

Video and Slides for Conference Day3 - Video Day3

Please choose from the menu below the video stream, the presentation you want to see.

Day three of the EVOTE2010 conference started with sessions on verifiability, double-blind signatures and coercion resistance of Internet voting systems.

The sessions were followed by the closing ceremony, the outlook for the next conference and the announcement of changes in the management of the Competence Center. Robert is taking on a new challenge at the OSCE/ODIHR in Warsaw and Manuel Kripp will take over the position of the Managing Director of E-Voting.CC.



The final item on the agenda was the social programme and the visit of the floating stage at the Lake of Constanz.



We would like to thank all our participants, speakers, partners and sponsors for making this year's conference an outstanding and extraordinary event.

We are looking forward to 2012.

The second day of the EVOTE conference covered several aspects on the operation, evaluation and verification of Electronic and Internet Voting Systems as well as concrete examples have been subject of discussions. The second part of sessions was dominated by political scientific papers.



The second day's highlight was the Council's of Europe panel discussion on the future of Internet Voting and Electronic Democracy. Michael Remmert (Council of Europe) chaired the panel on which Donetta Davidson (Election Assistance Commission), Kai Reinhard (Micromata) and Professor Norbert Kersting (Stellenbosch University) were discussing international trends and developments as well as challenges and risks of Internet Voting and E-Democracy.



The last official part was the Best Paper Award. After intense discussions the Program Committee decided to award Laetizia Caporusso from the University Trento with the Best Paper Award. Her paper and presentation on "The Role of Trust, Participation and Identity in the Propensity to E- & I-Vote" convinced the committee. We congratulate her for this outstanding success and hope to be able to welcome her at the EVOTE2012 as well.



The second conference day closed with the famous and world-known Käsestrasse organised by the fabulous staff from Castle Hofen.

So the first day of this year's EVOTE2010 conference, the 4th International Conference on Electronic Voting in Bregenz is over and the official paper presentations and discussions started.

Yesterday evening the pre-conference program started with the POLYAS Welcome Cocktail at which our participants immediately started networking and exchanging ideas as well discussed recent trends. The opening speech of Kai Reinhard, CEO of Micromata, was the shortest opening speech of a sponsor I experienced at a conference so far.

Before the evening event, the Council of Europe invited to a small workshop on e-enabled elections, transparency and certification of such elections.
There, several experts discussed the drafts of guidelines for a general overview, transparency issues and certification of e-enabled elections.

Pictures and impressions are available on facebook and later here on our website.

As the conference starts in a few hours, we would like to take the opportunity to thank our co-organizers, partners and sponsors.
They deserve the credit for providing us the sufficient means to make this event happen and organize the worlds most interesting and diverse conference on Electronic Voting.

It is Wednesday noon, July 21st, and we are ready to start with the 4th International E-Voting Conference. The preparation activities are nearly finished and we are ready to welcome our guest.



The first guests already arrived and get themselves acquainted with the wonderful situated conference location.



This year's conference is again co-organized by E-Voting.CC, the Council of Europe and the German Gesellschaft für Informatik. Around 70 international experts will discuss the latest trends and developments in Electronic Voting. The topics are ranging from practical experience reports from Austria and the US to the certification and End-to-End verification.

We are very happy to welcome the Chair of the U.S. Election Administration Commission, Donetta Davidson, as keynote speaker and are looking forward to fruitful discussion.

If you want to follow us, you find us on Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. The tag for all conference related posting is #EVOTE2010.

The online registration process for EVOTE2010 - the fourth International Conference on Electronic Voting - is now online. The conference will take place from 21st to 24th of July 2010 in Bregenz, Austria.

Before booking via the link below, please read these remarks to ensure a frictionless process and a binding registration:

• Please use the navigation on the website only!! Using the browser buttons (back/forward) will lead to a faulty registration

• The registration consists of three steps: First your personal data, second the payment and third the confirmation.

• In step one Please enter your personal information and select the social activities from the list as requested

• In step two you are asked to pay via money transfer or via credit card

• Step three is a confirmation of your registration. The invoice will be sent via post and email. Please note the necessary check box for our declaration of consent regarding video and photos.

• Please book your hotel via:
  service@convention.cc using the wording "EVOTE2010" in the subject line!
  In urgent cases you can contact Mrs. Lisa Hehle:
  +43/(0)5574/43443-23
  
  We provide a daily bus shuttle to and from the conference venue for your convenience. You can book flights individually or use our reduces flight fares.

• If you want to book for a second person, please finish the first booking procedure and click on the link below to re-start the process.

Please register for EVOTE2010 here!

For our special flight fare in cooperation with our official carrier Austrian Airlines, please see this entry.

You can download our preliminary programme folder: EVOTE-2010-Preliminary-Programme-Folder (pdf, 736 KB)


Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at
2010@e-voting.cc.

We are looking forward to another great conference in Castle Hofen next to Lake Constance!

Daniel Botz - Conference Manager EVOTE2010

As the EVOTE2010 conference is to begin on Wednesday 21st of June, we herewith provide you with the directions to Castle Hofen.

By Car
The address for gps-navigation is:
Schloss Hofen, Hoferstrasse 26,
6911 Lochau, Austria

From Austria/Switzerland:
Take the highway A14 through the “Pfändertunnel” and exit at Lochau-Hörbranz. Take a left into Lochau.
After 700 meters turn left again at the OMV gas station. You will arrive at Castle Hofen on your right after 550 meters.

From Germany:
Take highway E43 and exit after the former customs office “Hörbranz Zollamt”. From there, proceed as described above after the exit at Lochau-Hörbranz.

By Public Transportation
Take the train to Bregenz and then take a taxi. Please do not go to Lochau by bus as there are no taxis available in Lochau.

By Plane
While Bregenz does not have an airport, there are international airports nearby: Friedrichshafen (FDH) in Germany, Zurich Airport (ZRH) in Switzerland, and Airport Altenrhein (ACH) also in Switzerland. Altenrhein is connected to Vienna by Austrian/StarAlliance. Use the free Austrian Airlines bus to the Bregenz train station, then take a taxi.

Austrian Airlines offers 15% off all fares!
Visit our website for more details.

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

Book your flights to the EVOTE2010 online at www.austrian.com and save 15 % on all applicable fares!

To do so, simply enter the following code in the eVoucher / "Gutschein" field on the Austrian homepage booking-engine: EVOTE2010

Conditions:

• Booking period: now until July 24 th, 2010
• Valid for flights to Altenrhein/and via Vienna and return as of July
• 7th, 2010 until August 7th, 2010 (final date for return flight) on OS flight numbers.