Program

The program includes a pre-conference PhD Colloquium, and a 3-day main conference, with 3 Keynote speakers.

Keynote speakers

Michael Naehrig

Michael Naehrig is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research working in cryptography. Much of his research aims at bridging the gap between theory and practice. He has contributed to elliptic-curve cryptography, homomorphic encryption, and post-quantum cryptography, and hopes to enable end-to-end verifiable elections with his work on ElectionGuard.

Toby S. James

Toby S. James is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the University of East Anglia UK and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. He co-Directs the Electoral Integrity Project which produces innovative and policy-relevant research comparing elections worldwide. Forthcoming publications include the Oxford Handbook of Electoral Integrity (with Holly Ann Garnett, Oxford University Press) and What is Electoral Integrity? Reconceptualising Election Quality in an Age of Complexity (with Holly Ann Garnett, Cambridge University Press).

Benjamin W. Hovland and Donald L. Palmer

Ben Hovland was confirmed by unanimous consent of the United States Senate on January 2, 2019 as a member of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) and served as Chairman in 2020 and 2024. His leadership during an unprecedented time for election administration has helped transform the EAC to better support election officials and voters across the United States. 

Commissioner Donald Palmer serves on the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) and is the current Chairman of the Commission. His work at the EAC has consisted of proposed penetration testing as part of the VVSG testing program and laying the foundation for the EAC evaluation and testing of election supporting technology.

(Tentative) Schedule

Accepted papers

  • Recommendations to OSCE/ODIHR (on how to give better recommendations for Internet voting) - Jan Willemson
  • Development and Expert Evaluation of an Informative Video concerning Verifiable Internet Voting - Tobias Hilt, Florian Moser, Philipp Matheis and Melanie Volkamer
  • i-Voting in Poland? Trust, Political Skepticism, and Safety Concerns - David Duenas-Cid and Magdalena Musiał-Karg
  • Voting Under Pressure: Perceptions of Counter-Strategies in Internet Voting - Christina Frederikke Nissen, Tobias Hilt, Jurlind Budurushi, Melanie Volkamer and Oksana Kulyk
  • End-to-End Verifiable Internet Voting with Partially Private Bulletin Boards - Valeh Farzaliyev and Jan Willemson
  • Threshold Receipt-Free Voting with Server-Side Vote Validation - Thi Van Thao Doan, Olivier Pereira and Thomas Peters
  • Attack Once, Compromise All? On the Scalability of Attacks - Eva Hetzel, Marc Nemes and Jörn Müller-Quade
  • Credential Attacks in Ontario's Online Elections - Eric Klassen, James Brunet, Nicole Goodman and Aleksander Essex
  • Does Extending Polling Hours Compensate for Bomb Threats? The 2024 Election in Georgia, USA - Sequoia Andrade and Philip Stark
  • REACTIVE: Rethinking Effective Approaches Concerning Trustees in Verifiable Elections - Josh Benaloh, Michael Naehrig and Olivier Pereira
  • MERGE: Matching Electronic Results with Genuine Evidence, for verifiable voting in person at remote locations - Ben Adida, John Caron, Arash Mirzaei and Vanessa Teague
  • From Reporting Delay to Conspiracy Theory - Ines Levin and Gabriel Katz
  • Re‑Voting Under Surveillance: National eID Transaction Logs as a Threat to Coercion Resistance in Estonian Internet Voting - Tarvo Treier
  • How to Implement Anywhere Voting: A Case Study of Brazil - Leonardo Kimura, Roberto Araújo and Marcos Simplicio
  • Towards formal verification and corrupted setup security for the SwissPost voting system - Sevdenur Baloglu, Sergiu Bursuc, Reynaldo Gil-Pons and Sjouke Mauw
  • The DROP Protocol: Dispute Resolution via Observation in Public for Verifiable, In-Person Voting - Josh Benaloh, Michael Naehrig and Olivier Pereira
  • Revisiting silent coercion - David Chaum, Richard Carback, Mario Yaksetig, Jeremy Clark, Mahdi Nejadgholi, Bart Preneel, Alan Sherman, Filip Zagorski, Bingsheng Zhang and Zeyuan Yin
  • Dice, but don’t slice: Optimizing the efficiency of ONEAudit - Jacob Spertus, Amanda Glazer and Philip Stark
  • End-to-End Verifiability with Casting of Publicly Audited, Cleartext Ballots - P. Y. A. Ryan, Afonso Arriaga, Olivier Pereira and Peter Roenne
  • Short Paper: Improving the Efficiency of zkSNARKs for Ballot Validity - Felix Röhr, Nicolas Huber and Ralf Küsters
  • Surtr: Transparent Verification with Simple yet Strong Coercion Mitigation - Rosario Giustolisi, Maryam Sheikhi and Peter Browne Rønne
  • On a Study of Mechanisms for End-to-End Verifiable Online Voting (StuVe) - Veronique Cortier, Alexandre Debant, Ralf Kuesters, Florian Moser, Johannes Mueller and Melanie Volkamer
  • The Impact of Election Technology in Bulgaria - Stoil Tzitzelkov
  • Offline Electronic Voting in Flanders - Implementation, Evaluation and Strategic Lessons - Jan Coudron
  • Experience from UNITA Elections: Reconciling Revote, E2E Verifiability and Low Coercion - Feng Hao, Luke Harrison, Saverio Veltri, Irene Pugliatti, Chris Sinclair and Gareth Nixon
  • Empowering the Diaspora: A Digital Approach to Voter Registration for Albanian Citizens Out of the Country - Elira Hoxha, Jona Josifi and Redion Lila
  • E-vote in Argentina - 2025 Buenos Aires case study - Nicolas Deane and Jorge Garcia
  • A review of the Chilean Electoral Integrity System (SIE) - Mario Novoa, Magdalena Cruzat and Catalina Muñoz
  • How Finnish Election System Influences Online Voting - Juha Mäenalusta