[EGOV LIST] CFP E-Vote-ID 2025

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CALL FOR PAPERS

E-Vote-ID 2025

Tenth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting
Nancy, 1-3 October 2025
www.e-vote-id.org
e-vote-id-2025.inria.fr

(Main Submission Date: 15 May 2025)

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WWW: https://e-vote-id.org/ and https://e-vote-id-2025.inria.fr/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/
Bluesky: @evoteid.bsky.social
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/e-vote-id/

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This is the tenth edition of the leading international event for
e-voting experts from all over the world, taking place in Nancy in
October 2025.

One of E-Vote-ID’s major objectives is to provide a forum for
inter-disciplinary 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 nine
editions, over 300 presentations were discussed, gathering more than
1400 participants. The format of the conference is an in-place
three-day meeting. No parallel sessions will be held, and sufficient
space will be given for informal communication.

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General Chairs:
Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Duenas-Cid, David (Kozminski University, Poland)
Rønne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Local Chairs:
Gaudry, Pierrick (CNRS - Nancy, France)
Debant, Alexandre (Inria - Nancy, France)
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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: Blom, Michelle (The University of Melbourne, Australia) and
Gaudry, Pierrick (CNRS - Nancy, France)

- (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;
- Or 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: Loeber, Leontine (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The
Netherlands) and Borucki, Isabelle (Phillips University Marburg,
Germany)

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 in electronic voting;
- Data protection issues;
- Public interests vs. PPP (public private partnerships).

Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences
Chairs: Spycher, Oliver (Swiss Federal Chancellery, Switzerland) and
Past, Liisa (Independent Election Expert, Estonia)

- Present real-world cases related to technology use in elections or
referenda, including experiences with implementation, insights and
assessments;
- This can include cases of actual e-voting, but also wider technology
application (e.g., voter registration, results management systems,
etc.). Cases may include operation, preparation, observation,
lawmaking, case law, political debate, and other relevant subjects.

Contributions need not be academic papers, but should be properly
grounded and evidence-based. Contributions stemming from or addressing
issues in current academic research are also very welcome. Acceptance
criteria include relevance for other practitioners from EMB’s,
international organizations, civil society organisations (CSOs), or
actors from the private sector.

Track 4: Posters and Demonstrations
Chair: Romanov, Bogdan (Tartu University, Estonia) and Blanchard, Enka
(CNRS, France)
We invite Posters depicting new ideas or approaches to open discussion
with the community or summarizing papers that the submitter has
published at other venues but which are important for the E-Vote-ID
community to know and to discuss. A short abstract (see section on
paper submission and proceedings) is requested. If it relates to
already published papers, we ask you to provide the information on
where to find the original publication.
Further, we invite demonstrations of electronic voting systems or
parts thereof. We request a short abstract describing the main
properties: type of system local/remote; kind of elections the system
is intended for, e.g., legally binding elections to parliament,
nonpolitical 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: Passanti, Cecilia (Université Paris Cité, France) and Kirsten,
Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

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, 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 Guideline

All submissions must be anonymous. LNCS style is used for all
submissions (see the Springer guidelines at
www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/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 page
limit is 16 pages in LNCS format (references included).
- 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).
- Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) Papers: to evaluate, systematize,
and contextualize existing knowledge. The papers will be reviewed
according to the same standards as other research papers, but the
emphasis will be on value to the community rather than novel research
contributions. The submission should be max 20 pages in LNCS format or
max 10,000 words.
- 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.

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Publication of Proceedings

Springer LNCS volume. A selection of Full papers of Tracks 1 and 2
will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series of
Springer.

Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) volume. A selection of Full and Short
papers of Tracks 1, 2 and 3 will be published in the Lecture Notes in
Informatik of GI.
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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=evoteid2025

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

E-Vote-ID 2025 will take place in Nancy, France, and will be hosted by
Inria and LORIA.

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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 continuosuly renewed
with former chairs. 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:
Jordi Barrat, Micha Germann, Nicole Goodman, Thomas Hofer, Robert
Krimmer, Oksana Kulyk, Beata Martin-Rozumilowicz, Peter Y.A. Ryan and
Iuliia Spycher-Krivonosova.

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Key Dates for Submissions

Track 1 (Security, Usability and Technical Issues) and
Track 2 (Governance Issues):
15 May 2025– 23:59 (AoE, hard deadline, no extension) - Deadline for
submission of papers. (It will be possible to resubmit until 18 May
2025, but no new paper will be accepted after 15 May).
23 June 2025 - Notification of Acceptance.
23 July 2025 - Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions.

Track 3 (Election and Practical Experiences) and
Track 5 (PhD Colloquium)
10 July 2025– 23:59 (AoE, hard deadline, no extension) - Deadline for
submission of papers. (It will be possible to resubmit until 13 July
2025, but no new paper will be accepted after 10 July).
14 August 2025 - Notification of Acceptance.
15 September 2025 - Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions.

Track 4 (Poster and Demo Session)
15 September 2025 – Submission deadline

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Submission Link
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2025

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Programme Committee

Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues
Arapinis, Myrto (The University of Edinburgh, Scotland),
Araujo, Roberto (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil),
Aranha, Diego (Aarhus University, Denmark),
Beckert, Bernhard (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany),
Benaloh, Josh (Microsoft, USA), Bernhard, Matthew (University of Michigan, USA),
Budurushi, Jurlind (Baden- Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University
Karlsruhe, Germany),
Clark, Jeremy (Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, USA),
Collazos, César (Universidad del Cauca, Colombia),
Dragan, Catalin (University of Surrey, England),
Ek, Alexander (Monash University, Australia),
Essex, Aleksander (University of Western Ontario, Canada),
Finogina, Tamara (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Catalonia),
Gibson, J Paul (Mines Telecom, France),
Giustolisi, Rosario (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark),
Gjøsteen, Kristian (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway),
Glazer, Amanda (The University of Texas at Austin, USA),
Gore, Rajeev (Monash University, Australia),
Grimm, Ruediger (University of Koblenz, Germany),
Haenni, Rolf (Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland),
Haines, Thomas (The Australian National University, Australia),
Jacobs, Bart (Radboud University, The Netherlands),
Kirsten, Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany),
Koenig, Reto (Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland),
Küsters, Ralf (University of Stuttgart, Germany),
Mayer, Andreas (Hochschule Heilbronn, Germany),
Naehrig, Michael (Microsoft, USA),
Neumann, Stephan (Landesbank Saar, Germany),
Pereira, Olivier (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium),
Peters, Thomas (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium),
Reisert, Pascal (University of Stuttgart, Germany),
Rosemann, Stefan (Federal Office for Information Security, Germany),
Ryan, Mark (University of Birmingham, England),
Ryan, Peter Y. A. (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg),
Schneider, Steve (University of Surrey, England),
Schuermann, Carsten (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark),
Spertus, Jacob (University of California at Berkeley, USA),
Stark, Philip (University of California at Berkeley, USA),
Stuckey, Peter (Monash University, Australia),
Teague, Vanessa (Thinking Cybersecurity, Australia),
Truderung, Tomasz (University of Trier, Germany),
Vukcevic, Damjan (Monash University, Australia),
Wen, Roland (The University of New South Wales, Australia),
Willemson, Jan (Cybernetica, Estonia),
Zagorski, Filip (University of Wroclaw, Poland).

Track 2: Governance Issues
Aranyossy, Marta (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary),
Barrat i Esteve, Jordi (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia),
Darnolf, Staffan (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USA),
Fernández Riveira, Rosa Mª (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain),
Garnett, Holly Ann (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada),
Germann, Micha (University of Bath, England),
Goodman, Nicole (Brock University, Canada),
Hall, Thad (Mercer County Elections, USA),
Jonker, Hugo (Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands),
Kiraz, Mehmet Sabir (De Montfort University, England),
McGregor, Michael (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada),
Musial-Karg, Magdalena (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland),
Nurmi, Hannu (University of Turku, Finland),
Peña-López, Ismael (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Catalonia),
Sasvari, Peter (National University of Public Service, Hungary),
Serdült, Uwe (Ritsumeikan University, Japan),
Smith, Rodney (The University of Sydney, Australia),
Solvak, Mikhel (University of Tartu, Estonia),
Spycher, Iuliia (University of Bern, Switzerland),
Trumm, Siim (University of Nottingham, England)
Vinkel, Priit (E-governance Academy, Estonia),
Von Nostitz, Felix-Christopher (Université Catholique de Lille, France).

Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences
Bailey, Matt (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USA),
Bismark, David (Votato, Sweden),
Caarls, Susanne (Independent Electoral Expert Consultant, The Netherlands),
Chanussot, Thomas (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USA),
Chaudhary, Tarun (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USA),
Chelleri, Riccardo (European Commission, Belgium),
Driza Maurer, Ardita (Zentrum fur Demokratie Aarau, Switzerland),
Erni, Barbara (State Chancellery of Thurgau, Switzerland),
Giroud, Kayle (Global Cyber Alliance, Belgium),
Hofer, Thomas (Objectif Securité, Switzerland),
Leclère, Olivier (State of Geneva, Switzerland),
Levine, David (German Marshall Fund, USA),
Macias, Ryan (RSM Election Solutions, USA),
Martin-Rozumiłowicz, Beata (Independent Electoral Expert Consultant,
England), McDermott, Ronan (Independent Electoral Expert Consultant,
Switzerland),
Misev, Vladimir (Independent Electoral Expert Consultant, Macedonia),
Morrell, Jennifer (The Elections Group, USA),
Petrov, Goran (OSCE/ODIHR, Poland),
Plante, Stéphanie (University of Ottawa, Canada),
Thornton, Laura (German Marshall Fund, USA),
Van Kerckhoven, David (Federal Public Service Home Affairs, Belgium),
Vollan, Kåre (Quality AS, Norway),
Wenda, Gregor (BMI, Austria),
Wolf, Peter (IDEA, Sweden),
Yard, Michael (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USA).