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Call for papers:
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security: Special Issue on Electronic Voting


Submission deadline: 22 February 2009
First Review: 18 May 2009

Scope:
- Voting theory, including voting models
- Cryptographic voting systems
- Formal security analysis of voting systems
- Experimental security analysis of voting systems
- Evaluations and ratings of voting systems
- Usability and accessibility of voting systems
- History of voting technology
- Components building-blocks of voting systems, such as anonymous voting channels and secure bulletin boards
- Fraud/anomaly detection in elections
- Political districting and the allocation of voting technology

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Call for papers:
2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/
Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE '09)

August 10-11, 2009
Montreal, Canada

Refereed paper submissions due: April 17, 2009, 11:59 p.m. PDT
Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2009
Final files due: June 23, 2009

In addition to the areas in which EVT has seen very strong submissions in the past (below), we are especially interested in the following types of contributions:
- Technical work from vendor engineers and developers
- Scholarly work concerning legal and policy challenges
- Work involving research with or about accessibility
- Assessments, proposals, and policy prescriptions involving registration technologies (e-pollbooks, online registration)
- Papers based on direct experiences with recent elections, possibly from election officials and their staff

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Dagstuhl Accord
 
Participants of the 2007 Dagstuhl Conference on Frontiers of E-Voting agree that:

Taking advantage of technology to improve large-scale elections has recently captured the interest of researchers coming from a number of disciplines. The basic requirements pose an apparently irreconcilable challenge: while voter confidence hinges on transparently ensuring integrity of the outcome, ballot secrecy must also be ensured. Current systems can only address these essential requirements by relying on trust in those conducting the election or by trust in the machines and software they use. Some promising new systems dramatically reduce the need for such trust...

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