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The Workshop on Trustworthy Elections is organized by IAVoSS, the International Association for Voting Systems Sciences, in association with the 7th Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. It follows in the tradition of the series of workshops devoted to cryptographic voting methods, such as WOTE '01, the DIMACS Workshop 2004, FEE 2005, the NeSC Workshop on e-voting and e-democracy, and WOTE 2006.

Scope and Objectives

The challenge is highly socio-technical in nature and requires an understanding of the technological approaches as well as an appreciation of their social, legal, and political impact. The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry as well policy makers, voting officials, and others whose work relates to electronic voting systems, to evaluate the state of the art, to share practical experiences, and to look for possible enhancements. The overall goal is to stimulate discourse between the various stakeholders and enhance the understanding of voting technologies and practices.

Topics include but are not limited to:

Election integrity Ballot integrity Ballot secrecy Voter anonymity Voter authentication Receipts and coercion resistance Anonymous channels Secure bulletin boards

Threat models Formal security analysis Registration systems Electoral systems Performance evaluation and rating Case studies of electronic voting experiments Usability of voting systems Accessibility of voting

Effects of voting technology on voter behavior Privacy, verifiability, and transparency in e-voting The role of e-voting within e-democracy The relation between e-voting and models of democracy Philosophical, ethical, and legal aspects E-voting, human rights, and the digital divide History of voting technology Public acceptability

Format

A separate category of presentations, Informal Communications, encourages preliminary ideas or status updates and requires only a short summary be submitted that may even relate to submissions to other conferences.

Although WOTE 2007 will not have a formal proceedings, a volume of select extended abstracts from WOTE 2007 and prior WOTE meetings will be compiled for publication by Springer-Verlag.

WOTE Chairs

• David Chaum (Votegrity, USA)
• Ron Rivest (MIT, USA)

WOTE 2007 Program/General Chair

• Josh Benaloh (Microsoft Research, USA)

Proceedings Editor

• David Chaum (Votegrity, USA)

Program Committee

• Ben Adida (Harvard, USA)
• Josh Benaloh (Microsoft Research, USA)
• Stephanie Delaune (LORIA, France)
• Rosario Gennaro (IBM Research, USA)
• Jeroen van der Graaf (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
• Joseph Lorenzo Hall (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
• David Jefferson (Lawrence Livermore Lab, USA)
• Doug Jones (University of Iowa, USA)
• Ari Juels (RSA Security, USA)
• Steve Kremer (Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France)
• Robert Krimmer (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria)
• Tal Moran (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
• Andy Neff (VoteHere, USA)
• Peter Neumann (SRI International, Computer Science Lab, USA)
• Ron Rivest (MIT, USA)
• Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham, UK)
• Peter Ryan (Newcastle University, UK)
• Kazue Sako (NEC, Japan)
• Berry Schoenmakers (Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
• Michael Shamos (CMU, USA)
• Jacques Traoré (France Telecom R&D, France)
• Poorvi Vora (George Washington University, USA)
• David Wagner (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
• Michael Wiener (Cryptographic Clarity, Canada)