8th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting
A Workshop Associated with Financial Crypto 2023
May 5, 2023
Bluesun Hotel Elaphusa
Croatia
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 to elections has opened up a raft of new attack vectors. Recently, US has placed voting technologies on the list of national, critical infrastructures. Secure voting protocols, in particular so-called end-to-end verifiable schemes, have been a hot topic of research for the last decade or so. Voting poses many challenges: the precise characterization of subtle properties including verifiability and coercion resistance, accountability etc. and the design and analysis of schemes providing these properties in a complex, hostile environment. The field requires a deep understanding of modern crypto and information security but is also highly interdisciplinary, requiring understanding of the role of humans, physical components, procedures, legal and regulatory aspects etc.
Important Dates
| Initial Submission (title and abstract) Deadline | 8th December, 2022 AoE |
| Full Submission Deadline | 15th December, 2022 AoE |
| Notification of acceptance | 8th February, 2023 |
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
- Trust models
- Resilience and robustness of voting systems
- Designs of new systems
- Experiences deploying voting systems or conducting elections
- Experiences detecting and recovering from election problems
- 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 length of maximal 8 pages, will also be accepted as submissions this year, and can be used to introduce work in progress, novel applications, and voting experiences. These submissions must be clearly marked "Short papers:".
Also "Systemization of Knowledge" papers will be accepted and have a page limit of 15 pages but *excluding* references. These should be marked "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=voting23
Program Chairs
| Aleksander Essex | Western University, Canada |
| Oksana Kulyk | IT University of Copenhagen |
Program Committee
| Roberto Araujo | Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) |
| Josh Benaloh | MSR |
| Matthew Bernhard | University of Michigan |
| Jurlind Budurushi | Qatar University, Doha |
| Jeremy Epstein | SRI International |
| Tamara Finogina | Polytechnic University of Catalonia |
| Kristian Gjøsteen | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| Rajeev Gore | Technical University of Vienna and Polish Academy of Science |
| Rolf Haenni | Bern University of Applied Sciences |
| Christian Henrich | Albstadt-Sigmaringen University |
| Johannes Mueller | University of Luxembourg |
| Olivier Pereira | UCLouvain |
| Peter Roenne | Polish Academy of Sciences |
| Peter Y. A. Ryan | CNRS, LORIA |
| Steve Schneider | University of Surrey |
| Carsten Schuermann | IT University of Copenhagen |
| Philip Stark | University of California, Berkeley |
| Vanessa Teague | Thinking Cybersecurity |