9th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting
A Workshop Associated with Financial Crypto 2024
March 8, 2024
Curacao Marriott Beach Resort
Willemstad, Curaçao
Call for Papers
Elections are the foundations of democracy, and they have been the target for attack since the dawn of democracy. Over the last few decades, the introduction of digital technologies has opened numerous attack vectors against elections, which are a critical infrastructure of any democratic country. Secure voting protocols, such as cryptographically end-to-end verifiable (E2E-V) schemes, have been a hot topic of research for the past two decades, and a steady stream of real-world vulnerabilities found in voting technology in recent years has only intensified the scrutiny of elections. Voting poses many challenges: the precise characterization of subtle properties, including verifiability and coercion resistance, accountability, and the design and analysis of schemes providing these properties in a complex, hostile environment. In addition, the field requires a deep understanding of modern crypto and information security. Still, it is also highly interdisciplinary, requiring knowledge of the role of governments, voters, physical components, procedures, legal and regulatory aspects, etc.
Important Dates
| Initial Submission (title and abstract) Deadline | 7th December, 2023 AoE |
| Full Submission Deadline | 14th December, 2023 AoE |
| Notification of acceptance | 15th January, 2024 |
Submissions
Papers should contain original research in any area related to electronic voting technologies, verifiable elections, and related concerns. Example topics include but are not limited to:
- In-person voting systems
- Remote/Internet voting systems
- Voter registration and authentication systems
- Procedures for ballot and election auditing
- Cryptographic (or non-cryptographic) verifiable election schemes
- Attacks on existing systems
- Designs of new systems
- Formal or informal security or requirements analysis
- Examination of usability and accessibility issues
- Research on relevant regulations, standards, or laws
Papers describing experiences deploying voting systems, conducting elections, or detecting and recovering from election problems are welcome, so long as they include enough rigorous analysis to constitute original research.
Submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, correctness, and clarity.
The workshop solicits submissions of manuscripts that represent significant and novel research contributions. Submissions must not substantially overlap with works that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings.
Submissions should follow the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format and should be no more than 15 pages, including references and well-marked appendices.
Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Authors who seek to submit their works to journals may opt out by publishing an extended abstract only.
Short papers with a maximum length of 8 pages will also be accepted as submissions and can be used to introduce work in progress, novel applications, and voting experiences. The title of such submissions must be preceded with the label "Short paper".
Also, "Systemization of Knowledge" papers will be accepted and have a page limit of 15 pages but *excluding* references. The title of such submissions must be preceded with the label "SoK".
All submissions will be reviewed double-blind, and as such, must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references.
Submission website
Submit your paper manuscript in EasyChair here:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=voting24
Program Chairs
| Jurlind Budurushi | Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Karlsruhe, Germany |
| Oksana Kulyk | IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
Program Committee
| Roberto Araujo | Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) |
| Josh Benaloh | MSR |
| Matthew Bernhard | University of Michigan |
| Jurlind Budurushi | Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Karlsruhe |
| Jeremy Clark | Concordia University |
| Costantin Catalin Dragan | University of Surrey |
| Aleksander Essex | Western University |
| Tamara Finogina | Polytechnic University of Catalonia |
| Kristian Gjøsteen | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| Rolf Haenni | Bern University of Applied Sciences |
| Thomas Heines | Queensland University of Technology |
| Oksana Kulyk | IT University of Copenhagen |
| Johannes Mueller | University of Luxembourg |
| Olivier Pereira | UCLouvain |
| Daniel Rausch | University of Stuttgart |
| Peter Roenne | University of Luxembourg |
| Peter Y. A. Ryan | University of Luxembourg |
| Carsten Schuermann | IT University of Copenhagen |
| Philip Stark | University of California, Berkeley |
| Vanessa Teague | Thinking Cybersecurity |