[EGOV LIST] Final CFP E-Vote-ID 2022

[Peter Browne Rønne]

[Apologies for cross and multiple postings]



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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS



E-Vote-ID 2022



Seventh International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting

Bregenz, Austria, 4-7 October 2022

www.e-vote-id.org



(Main Submission Date: 15 May 2022)



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WWW: https://www.e-vote-id.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/

Twitter: @evotingcc

Hashtag: #EVoteID2022



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This is the seventh edition of the leading international event for e-voting
experts from all over the world, taking place in Bregenz (Austria) in
October 2022.



One of E-Vote-ID’s major objectives is to provide a forum for
interdisciplinary and open discussion of all issues related to electronic
voting (including, but not limited to, polling stations, kiosks, ballot
scanners, and Internet voting). In the first six editions, over 200
presentations were discussed, gathering more than 800 participants.



We aim for a hybrid conference. Further information will be provided during
2022. The format of the conference is a three-day meeting. No parallel
sessions will be held and sufficient space will be given for informal
communication.



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General Chairs:

Krimmer, Robert (University of Tartu, Estonia),

Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Duenas-Cid, David (Kozminski University, Poland and University of Tartu,
Estonia)



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The aim of the conference is to bring together e-voting specialists working
in academia, politics, government, and industry in order to discuss various
aspects of all forms of electronic voting. To address the interdisciplinary
character of the conference, the conference has four tracks and a PhD
colloquium:



Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues

Chairs: Rønne, Peter (Université de Lorraine, LORIA, CNRS, France) and
Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Design, analysis, formal modeling or research implementation of:

- (Remote) Electronic voting protocols and systems: design and analysis;

- New types of voter identification and authentication;

- Ballot secrecy, receipt-freeness, and coercion resistance;

- End-to-end verifiability;

- Risk limiting audits;

- Requirements and formal modelling;

- Evaluation and certification, including international security standards;

- Risk assessment;

- Voter authentication;

- Human aspects of security mechanisms in electronic voting and in
particular of verifiability mechanisms;

- Any other security and Human-Computer Interface (HCI) issues relevant to
(remote) electronic voting.



It is important for the review process that the methodology in place is
clearly described. Furthermore, it is essential that the limitations are
clearly mentioned and discussed: Limitations can be that a formal proof
exists only for parts of the system or for some properties, or that a
mathematical proof is missing for the proposed protocol. In the context of
user studies, e.g., limitations regarding the sample, the external or
internal validity should be mentioned and discussed.





Track 2: Governance Issues

Chairs: Germann, Micha (University of Bath, United Kingdom) and Krimmer,
Robert (University of Tartu, Estonia)

This track is intended to cover all non-technical issues that occur during
the digital transformation of elections including, but not limited to the
following:

- Legal, political and social issues of electronic voting implementations,
ideally employing case study methodology;

- Interrelationship with, and the effects of, electronic voting on
democratic institutions and processes;

- Cultural impact of electronic voting on institutions, behaviour, and
attitudes of the Digital Era;

- Administrative, legal, political and social issues of electronic voting;

- Electronic voting legislation;

- Public administrations and the implementation of electronic voting;

- Understandability, transparency, and trust issues inelectronic voting;

- Data protection issues;

- Public interests vs. PPP (public private partnerships).





Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences

Chairs: Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata (European Commission, Belgium) and
Hofer, Thomas (Objectif Securité, Switzerland)

- Review developments in the area of applied electronic

voting;

- Report on experiences with electronic voting or the preparation thereof
(including reports on development and implementation, case law, court
decisions, legislative steps, public and political debates, election
outcomes, etc.);



These experiences and practical reports need not contain original research,
but must be an accurate, complete, and, where applicable, evidence-based
account of the technology or system used.





Track 4: Posters and Demonstrations

Chair: Glondu, Stéphane (Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et
Technologies du Numérique, France), Budurushi, Jurlind (Cloudical
Deutschland GmbH)



We invite Posters depicting new ideas or approaches you want to discuss
with the community or summarizing papers you have published on other venues
but you think are important for the E-Vote-ID community to know and to
discuss. A Short Paper (see section on paper submission and proceedings) is
requested. If it relates to already published papers, we ask you to provide
the information where to find the original publication and whether you want
the Short Paper being included in the proceedings or not (due to potential
copyright restrictions of the main paper)



Further, we invite demonstrations of electronic voting systems or parts
thereof. We request a Short Paper describing the main properties (type of
system local/remote; kind of elections the system is intended for, e.g.
legally binding elections to parliament, non-political elections within
associations etc; support for voters with disabilities; which security
properties are fulfilled (incl. verifiability, voter privacy, etc.; how to
receive further information about the system, e.g. where the source code is
published).





Track 5: PhD Colloquium

Chairs: Zollinger, Marie Laure (University of Luxembourg) and Duenas-Cid,
David (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland and University of Tartu,
Estonia)



The goal of the colloquium is to foster the understanding and academic
quality of PhD students’ contributions in collaboration with senior
researchers in the field. Further, the collaboration between PhD students
from various disciplines working on e-voting is supported. To this end, the
program allows plenty of space for discussion and initiating collaboration
based on presentations by attendees.



Each interested participant should ideally submit their research proposal
(or alternatively ideas for papers, open problems, or other issues where
feedback from colleagues  would be helpful etc.) in the form of an extended
draft using the conference platform. High-potential master students can
also submit their work to the colloquium.



The PhD Colloquium takes place on the day before the formal conference
begins.



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Paper Submission Types



LNCS style is used for all submissions (see the Springer guidelines at
http://www.springer.com/gp/computerscience/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines,
including templates for LaTeX and Microsoft Word). All papers in the
conference will be Open Access.

Paper submissions can be in the following formats:

- Full papers need to contain original unpublished research. The submission
should be max 16 pages inLNCS format.

- Work-in-Progress submissions contain ongoing original research. The
submission should be max 20 pages in LNCS format or max 10,000 words.
Initial submissions are format-neutral. If submissions are accepted, the
authors are expected to provide a short summary of their key contributions
(max 4 pages in LNCS format). This submission route enables authors to
receive feedback on work in progress without pre-empting publication in a
different venue (e.g., an academic journal).

- Short Papers are a maximum of 4 pages long in LNCS format all-in. In
Tracks 1 and 2, such papers have a smaller contribution than a full paper.
All accepted contributions in tracks 3 to 5 are published as Short papers.



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Proceedings



The E-Vote-ID conference publishes two volumes of proceedings. One volume
is published with Springer LNCS proceedings and another one is published
with University of Tartu Press. Both proceedings are published under open
access licenses.



Selected Full papers from Track 1 (Security, Usability and Technical
Issues) and Track 2 (Governance Issues) are published in the Springer LNCS
proceedings. Short Papers from these tracks, as well as all contributions
accepted in Tracks 3 to 5 are published in University of Tartu Press
proceedings.



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Reviewing



All submissions will be subject to double-blind reviews. Submissions must
be anonymous (with no reference to the authors). Submissions are to be made
using the EasyChair conference system at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2022



During submission, please select the appropriate track or the PhD
colloquium. The track chairs reserve the right to re-assign papers to other
tracks in case of better fit based on reviewer feedback and in coordination
with other track chairs.



When submitting, you will be asked to declare the conflicts of interest
with the members of the Programme Committee in Easychair; please follow the
common sense for that (e.g. because they have been co-authored a paper in
the last three years, they have been in the same project, there is or was a
supervision relation, or because they have the same affiliation). The
members mentioned will not be involved in the review process of your paper.



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Venue



The conference will be held in the Renaissance castle of Hofen at
Lochau/Bregenz on the shores of Lake Constance in Austria.



Please note – the welcome reception will not take place on the evening
before the first conference day, but has been combined with the poster and
demo session on the evening of the first conference day on 5. October. It
will be held in castle Hofen, where also the conference dinner will take
place on 7. October. Notably, the conference dinner will feature the
traditional “Cheese Road”!



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Steering Board



The Steering Board of the conference is composed of the track chairs that
served in the previous two editions. It is renewed every year. The mission
of the steering board is to support the current general and track chairs
with the promotion of the conference and to assist with conflicts of
interest emerging as a result of current chairs submitting papers to the
conference.



The current members of the Steering Board are:

Bernhard Beckert, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany,

Ralf Küsters, University of Stuttgart, Germany,

Oksana Kulyk, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark,

Uwe Serdült, Ritsumeikan University, Japan,

Mihkel Solvak, University of Tartu, Estonia,

Iuliia Krivonosova, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia.



With 2022 being the first year featuring the staggered steering board, the
board this year also includes the members of the 2021 board:

Barrat, Jordi (EVOL2 – ­eVoting Research Lab, Spain)

Benaloh, Josh (Microsoft Research, USA)

Goodman, Nicole (University of Toronto, Canada)

Krimmer, Robert (University of Tartu, Skytte Institute, Estonia)

Ryan, Peter Y A (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Spycher, Oliver (Federal Chancellery, Switzerland)

Teague, Vanessa (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany)

Wenda, Gregor (Federal Ministry of the Interior, Austria)



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Key Dates for Submissions



Track 1 (Security, Usability and Technical Issues) and

Track 2 (Governance Issues):

Deadline for submission of papers:* 15 May 2022* at 23:59 (Hawaiian time,
hard deadline, no extension. It will be possible to resubmit until 18 May
2022, but no new paper will be accepted after 15 May).

Notification of Acceptance: 24 June 2022.

Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions: 24 July 2022.



Track 3 (Election and Practical Experiences) and

Track 5 (PhD Colloquium):

Deadline for submission of papers:* 10 July 2022* at 23:59 (Hawaiian time,
hard deadline, no extension. It will be possible to resubmit until 13 July
2022, but no new paper will be accepted after 10 July).

Notification of Acceptance: 14 August 2022.

Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions: 15 September 2022.



Track 4 (Poster and Demo Session):

Submission deadline:* 15 September* 2022.



See more: https://e-vote-id.org/important-dates-2022/







Programme Committee



General Chairs

Krimmer, Robert (University of Tartu, Estonia),

Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Duenas-Cid, David (Kozminski University, Poland and University of Tartu,
Estonia)





Track Chairs



Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues

Rønne, Peter (Université de Lorraine, LORIA, CNRS, France)

Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)



Track 2: Governance Issues

Germann, Micha (University of Bath, United Kingdom)

Krimmer, Robert (University of Tartu, Estonia)



Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences

Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata (European Commission, Belgium)

Hofer, Thomas (Objectif Securité, Switzerland)



Track 4: Posters and Demonstrations

Glondu, Stéphane (Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et
Technologies du Numérique, France)

Budurushi, Jurlind (Cloudical Deutschland GmbH, Germany)



Track 5: PhD Colloquium

Zollinger, Marie Laure (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Duenas-Cid, David (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland and University
of Tartu, Estonia)



Outreach Chairs

Rønne, Peter (Université de Lorraine, LORIA, CNRS, France)

Krivonosova, Iuliia (Tallinn University of Technology)



Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues

Programme Committee

Araujo, Roberto (Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA))

Beckert, Bernhard (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Benaloh, Josh (Microsoft Research, USA)

Bernhard, Matthew (VotingWorks)

Blanchard, Enka (Digitrust, Loria, Université de Lorraine)

Budurushi, Jurlind (ITU Copenhagen)

Clark, Jeremy (Concordia University)

Collazos, Cesar A. (Universidad del Cauca)

Cortier, Veronique (CNRS, Loria)

Dragan, Constantin Catalin (University of Surrey)

Essex, Aleksander (University of Western Ontario)

Gibson, J Paul (Mines Telecom)

Giustolisi, Rosario (IT University of Copenhagen)

Gjøsteen, Kristian (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Gore, Rajeev (The Australian National University)

Grimm, Ruediger (University of Koblenz)

Haenni, Rolf (Bern University of Applied Sciences)

Haines, Thomas (Queensland University of Technology)

Jacobs, Bart (Radboud University)

Jamroga, Wojtek (Polish Academy of Sciences)

Kirsten, Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

Koenig, Reto (Bern University of Applied Sciences)

Kremer, Steve (INRIA)

Kulyk, Oksana (IT University of Copenhagen)

Küsters, Ralf (University of Stuttgart)

Mayer, Andreas (Hochschule Heilbronn)

Mueller, Johannes (University of Luxembourg)

Neumann, Stephan (Landesbank Saar)

Pereira, Olivier (UCLouvain)

Reisert, Pascal (University of Stuttgart)

Renaud, Karen (University of Strathclyde)

Roseman, Stefan (Federal Office for Information Security)

Ruescas, David (nVotes)

Ryan, P. Y. A. (University of Luxembourg)

Ryan, Mark (University of Birmingham)

Schneider, Steve (University of Surrey)

Schoenmakers, Berry (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Schuermann, Carsten (IT University of Copenhagen)

Selker, Ted (University of California, Berkeley, CITRIS)

Stark, Philip (University of California, Berkeley)

Syta, Ewa (Yale University)

Teague, Vanessa (Thinking Cybersecurity)

Truderung, Tomasz (Polyas)

Wen, Roland (The University of New South Wales)

Willemson, Jan (Cybernetica)

Zagorski, Filip (Wroclaw University of Technology)

Zollinger, Marie-Laure (Université du Luxembourg)



Track 2: Governance Issues

Programme Committee

Aranyossy, Marta (Corvinus University of Budapest)

Barrat I Esteve, Jordi (eVoting Legal Lab)

Dandoy, Régis (Universidad San Francisco de Quito)

Darnolf, Staffan (International Foundation for Electoral Systems)

Eenmaa, Helen (University of Tartu)

Gabel, Chelsea (McMaster University)

Goodman, Nicole (Brock University)

Kersting, Norbert (University of Münster)

Krivonosova, Iuliia (Tallin University of Technology)

Musial-Karg, Magdalena (Adam Mickiewicz University)

Nemeslaki, Andras (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)

Nurmi, Hannu (University of Turku)

Pammett, Jon (Carleton University)

Rodriguez, Adria (Scytl Election Technologies, S.L.U.)

Sandri, Giulia (European School of Political and Social Sciences)

Sasvari, Peter (National University of Public Service)

Smith, Rodney (University of Sydney)

Solvak, Mikhel (University of Tartu)

Trumm, Siim (University of Nottingham)

Vinkel, Priit (E-governance Academy, Estonia)

von Nostitz, Felix (Université Catholique de Lille)



Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences

Programme Committee

Bismark, David (Votato)

Bull, Christian (The Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Regional
Development)

Caarls, Susanne (Election Consultant)

Catozzi, Gianpiero (UNDP)

Chanussot, Thomas (IFES)

Egger, Philipp (Staatskanzlei Kanton St. Gallen)

Franklin, Joshua (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Leclère, Olivier (State of Geneva)

Loeber, Leontine (University of East Anglia)

Macias, Ryan (RSM Election Solutions LLC)

Driza Maurer, Ardita (legal expert)

McDermott, Ronan (mcdis)

Misev, Vladimir (OSCE/ODIHR)

Past, Liisa (Information System Authority, Republic of Estonia)

Petrov, Goran (OSCE/ODIHR)

Plante, Stéphanie (University of Ottawa)

Spycher, Oliver (Swiss Federal Chancellery)

Vollan, Kåre (Quality AS)

Wenda, Gregor (BMI)

Wolf, Peter (IDEA)

Yard, Michael (IFES)