E-Vote-ID 2026

Chairs: Gaudry, Pierrick (CNRS - Nancy, France) and Haines, Thomas (Australian National University, Australia).

• (Remote) Eletronic 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.

Chairs: Loeber, Leontine (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Borucki, Isabelle (Phillips University Marbourg, Germany)

• Legal, political and social issues of electronic voting implementations, ideally employing case study methodology;
• Interrelationship with, and the effects of, electronic voting on democratic insitutions 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).

Chairs: Past, Liisa (Election Expert, Estonia) and Misev, Vladimir (Election Expert, North Macedonia)

• 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. Papers will be evaluated based on the relevance for practitioners from EMB’s, international organizations, civil society organisations (CSOs), or actors from the private sector.

Chairs: Kirsten, Michael (LMU Munich, Germany)

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).

Chairs: Moser, Florian (Inria-Nancy, France) and Romanov, Bogdan (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, 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.