This conference is the international meeting point for e-voting experts from all over the world to hold an interdisciplinary and open discussion of all issues electronic voting involves. It is the continuation of the successful 2004 & 2006 E-Voting conferences in the same location. Together 150 experts from 26 countries (and five continents) discussed electronic voting.

Aim of conference

The aim of this conference is to bring together e-voting specialists working in academia, politics, government and industry in order to:

• Discuss all forms of electronic voting (including but not limited to polling station, kiosk or remote voting by electronic means)
• Formulate the interdisciplinary issues involved (technology, law, politics and society) in designing and implementing e-voting.
• Present new ways of solving the voting paradigm of unequivocal identification of the voter and full anonymity of the vote.
• Report on implementations, their legal, organisational and technical framework, the project experience made, and future plans.
• Analyse the interrelationship with and the effects of e-voting on, democratic institutions and processes as well as voter behaviour.
• Conduct a social and political analysis of the effects of electronic voting.
• Report on practical experience in implementing and conducting elections with electronic voting parts.
• Discuss security requirements and testing in accordance to international security standards i.e. Common Criteria or ITSEC.
• Evaluate electronic voting, the effects of it and how to evaluate experiments.

The idea of this conference is to discuss the development in this field in a 3-day conference that deals with the topics from a theoretical view as well as practical case studies.

Contributed papers

The full paper submissions (double-spaced, 3500-4500 words excl. abstract, figures, references) will be subject to a double-blind review. Please submit anonymous submissions (with no reference to the authors). Electronic submissions shall be made through the platform provided at www.e-voting.cc/2008, which serves as online-system for the review process.

All papers accepted for the conference will appear in the conference proceedings. The conference proceedings are intended to appear as an edition in the GI Lecture Notes Series.

Deadlines

Draft of the paper: February, 29th 2008
Review deadline: March, 28th 2008
Notification of acceptance: April, 14th 2008
Receipt of the final paper: May, 9th 2008

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