E-Vote-ID Conference

🎉Exciting news! #EVoteID26 will be held in Tallinn, Estonia

🗓️When: October 6 - 9, 2026
📌General Chairs: Melanie Volkamer, @davidduenascid.bsky.social, Peter Rønne
🌍Local Chairs: Arne Koitmäe, Alo Einla

Let’s start the countdown to Tallinn, hope to see you all there!

🏆 Celebrating excellence at #EvoteID25! (2/2)

At the Gala Dinner, we were proud to present an Outstanding Contribution Award to Peter Y. A. Ryan in recognition of his remarkable contributions to e-voting research 👏

🏆 Celebrating excellence at #EvoteID25! (1/2)

During Gala Dinner, we celebrated the best papers with a Distinguished Paper Award for Tracks 1,2,3 and 4!

Congrats to all winners and thanks to every author whose work enriched this year’s program!

🎉That’s a wrap for #EvoteID25!

💡A heartfelt thank you to all participants, speakers, chairs, and organizers who made this year’s edition a success.

🗳️It has been an inspiring week in Nancy - see you next year!

#EVoting #DigitalDemocracy #CyberSecurity

☀️Wrapping up #EvoteID25 with the Rump Session!

A final chance for open discussions, fresh ideas, and reflections before we close the conference

Thanks to everyone who submitted their work!

💫The session ends with Sergiu Bursuc:

"Towards formal verification and corrupted setup security for the SwissPost voting system"

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⭐️Next up, Tarvo Treier presents:

"Re‑Voting Under Surveillance: National eID Transaction Logs as a Threat to Coercion Resistance in Estonian Internet Voting"

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🌟We open the last day of #EVoteID25 with a keynote by Benjamin Hovland and Donald Palmer from the US EAC:

“A Bipartisan Dialogue on Securing Voting Technology in the United States”

A unique perspective on how the EAC supports the secure and reliable use of technology in elections

☀️The session continues with Marc Nemes:

"Attack Once, Compromise All? On the Scalability of Attacks"

In this paper, the authors propose a framework to quantify how prone different protocols are to attacks that scale well

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✨The session on "Analysis and Attacks" has begun! James Brunet presents:

"Credential Attacks in Ontario's Online Elections"

The paper proposes two voter authentication attacks in the context of the 2022 Ontario Municipal Election

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☀️Wrapping up Day 2 @ #EVoteID25 with the panel:

“Post-Quantum Transformation in E-Voting”

Chair: @peterroenne.bsky.social
Panelists: Thomas Haines, Audhild Høgåsen, Riccardo Longo, Olivier Pereira, Jan Willemson

An engaging discussion on how post-quantum could transform electronic voting

✨The session continues with Stoil Tzitzelkov:

"The Impact of Election Technology in Bulgaria"

The paper demonstrates that e-voting markedly reduced invalid ballots and enhanced the accuracy of preferential tabulation, in the elections conducted from 2021 to 2024.

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☀️Welcome back to the "lessons from countries" session! We start with Jan Coudron:

"Offline Electronic Voting in Flanders"

The paper is an introduction to e-voting in Flanders, diving into implementation practices, evaluation reports and lessons learned

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💫Concluding the session with Olivier Pereira:

"The DROP Protocol: Dispute Resolution via Observation in Public for Verifiable, In-Person Voting"

This work presents a new definition of dispute resolution and a protocol where observers always resolve disputes correctly

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☀️Next up: Peter Y. A. Ryan presents

"E2E Verifiable Elections with Casting of Publicly Audited Ballots"

The paper proposes an in-person scheme in which ballot audits are outsourced to independent auditors and observers.

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🌟The session continues with Vanessa Teague:

"MERGE: Matching Electronic Results with Genuine Evidence, for verifiable voting in person at remote locations"

This work presents a protocol that combines the speed of electronic ballot delivery with the reliability of paper returns

🌟We're back! Starting the afternoon session with @akglazer.bsky.social:

"Dice, but don’t slice: Optimizing the efficiency of ONEAudit"

This work shows how ONEAudit can be improved by tuning the statistical tests it uses, reducing sample sizes by 70–85% over old proposals.

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✨Last talk of the morning session! Jan Willemson presents:

"Recommendations to OSCE/ODIHR (on how to give better recommendations for Internet voting)"

This talk highlights how some recommendations are impossible to follow or require non-trivial trade-offs

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💫 On stage: Leonardo Kimura presents

"How to Implement Anywhere Voting: A Case Study of Brazil"

A talk exploring pros and cons of four alternatives for implementing anywhere voting

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✨The new session starts with the presentation of Tobias Hilt:

"Development and Expert Evaluation of an Informative Video concerning Verifiable Internet Voting"

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Herr the Link to the study published by the @bsi.bund.de

www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/D...

Thanks a lot to Florian to present our paper „On a Study of Mechanisms for End-to-End Verifiable Online Voting (StuVe) co-authored by
Véronique Cortier, Alexandre Debant, Ralf Kuesters, Florian Moser, Johannes Mueller and Melanie Volkamer #EVoteID2025

🌟Next up: Mario Novoa presents
"A review of the Chilean Electoral Integrity System (SIE)"

which examines the origins, design, and operation of the SIE, with particular attention to its deployment in the 2024 general elections

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☀️ The session continues with Feng Hao and Saverio Veltri:

"Experience from UNITA Elections: Reconciling Revote, E2E Verifiability and Low Coercion"

An insightful talk on the design, implementation, and deployment of an online voting system for the UNITA Elections.

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The track on election technologies in practice has begun! Thanks to Florian Moser for presenting

"On a Study of Mechanisms for End-to-End Verifiable Online Voting (StuVe)"

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⭐Welcome to the second day of the conference! We start with the presentation of Michael Naehrig:

"ElectionGuard: A modular approach to verifiable elections"

which gives very interesting insights on ElectionGuard's cryptographic building blocks

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Nicolas Huber concludes today's scientific sessions with the presentation:

"Improving the Efficiency of zkSNARKs for Ballot Validity"

Thanks to everyone who contributed!

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☀️Rosario Giustolisi introduced:

"Surtr: Transparent Verification with Simple yet Strong Coercion Mitigation"

a new scheme that enables transparent verification without requiring a private channel.

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🌟Amazing talk! Josh Benaloh presented:

"REACTIVE: Rethinking Effective Approaches Concerning Trustees in Verifiable Elections"

which looks at several aspects of the trustee experience

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The last session is starting! Thanks to Valeh Farzaliyev for presenting:

"End-to-End Verifiable Internet Voting with Partially Private Bulletin Boards"

which proposes an updated verifiable voting protocol that also achieves coercion resistance by allowing re-voting.

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