GOAL

 

This workshop is the international research meeting point for e-voting experts from different disciplines: Computer Scientists (security, usability, availability, software engineering), Lawyers, Sociologist and Politicians.

 

 

The aim of this Workshop is to bring together e-voting specialists in order to discuss ….

• all forms of E-Voting (including but not limited to polling station, mobile voting, kiosk or remote voting by electronic means)

• the role of identity and identification for E-Voting systems

•  profiling aspects

•  role of commercial voting systems; are commercial identity management systems suitable for e-voting?

• threats: identity frauds/theft, privacy issues

• usability and accessibility issues (both for voters and for administrators)

•   legal issues

•  design and analysis of E-Voting schemes and protocols, their deployment and lifecycle concerns

• security requirements, formal analysis and evaluation of electronic voting schemes and systems

• concrete issues, like necessity of verifiability/digital receipts problems/anonymous channel in practise

• interdisciplinary issues involved (link between identity and digital identity and E-Voting )

 

•  interrelationship with and the effects of E-Voting on democratic institutions and processes as well as voter behaviour

• social and political analysis of the effects of electronic voting

• new ways of solving the voting paradigm of unequivocal identification of the voter and full anonymity of the vote