The workshop is organized by the research group e-voting.at and included keynotes by Michael Remmert from the Council of Europe, Christian Rupp of the Austrian Federal Chancellery. Further more it was the aim of this ESF Workshop to bring together e-voting specialists working in academia, government and industry in order to

• Formulate the issues involved (technology, law and
  politics) in implementing e-voting.
  

• Report on implementations, their legal, organisational
  and technical framework, the project experience made
  and future plans.
  

• Analyse the effects of e-voting on our democratic
  system and voter behaviour.
  

Best Paper Award
The Award for the Best Paper of the conference was arwarded to Anne-Marie Oostveen and Peter van den Besselar with their paper on Security as Belief: User perceptions on Security of E-Voting Systems. (See picture below)

Final Programme
The workshop „Electronic Voting in Europe“ was held in
Schloß Hofen, Lochau/Bregenz (Lake of Constance).

Pre-Conference Programme

Tuesday, 6th of July 2004

On Tuesday evening at 19:00 there was be a pre-conference welcome cocktail held in Schloss Hofen, sponsored by the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (WKO).

Wednesday, 7th of July 2004
08:00 Registration
09:30 Welcome Note by Conference Chair (Alexander Prosser; WU Vienna University of Economics and BA, Austria)
09:45 Keynote: Towards European standards on electronic voting (Michael Remmert; Council of Europe)
10:15 Keynote: Electronic Democracy in Austria (Christian Rupp, Federal Chancellery of Austria)
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Electronic Voting in Europe: Technology, Law and Politics (Alexander Prosser, Robert Krimmer; WU, Austria)
11:45 E-Voting: International Developments and Lessons Learnt (Thomas Buchsbaum; Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Austria)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 E-Voting: Switzerland's projects and their legal framework (Nadja Braun; Federal Chancellery of Switzerland)
14:45 Socio-politcal aspects of eVoting: the voters profile as observed in Geneva [1] [2] (Michel Chevallier; Chancellery of Geneva, Switzerland)
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Remote voting and coercion: risk assessment and solutions [1] [2] (Bernard Van Acker; IBM Belgium)
16:45 E-Voting and Biometric Systems (Sonja Hof; University of Linz, Austria)
17:30 E-Voting Experiments (Christopher Soghoian; Johns Hopkins University, USA)
17:40 Day closing remark by chairman
19:00 Dinner with regional specialities from the famous "Käsestrasse im Bregenzerwald"

Wednesday, 8th of July 2004
09:00 Security as belief: User’s perceptions on the security of electronic voting systems (Anne-Marie Oostveen, Peter van den Besselaar; Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands)
09:45 Towards remote e-voting: Estonian case (Epp Maaten, Federal Chancellery of Estonia)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Experimentation on Secure Internet Voting in Spain [1], [2], [3] (Andreu Riera, Gerard Cervelló; Scytl Spain)
11:45 Robust Electronic Voting System (Rui Joaquim; Portugal)
12:30 Lunch Break
14:00 Verifiability and Other Technical Requirements for Online Voting Systems (Niels Meißner, Volker Hartmann, Dieter Richter; Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany)
14:45 From Legal Standards to an E-Voting System (Melanie Volkamer; DFKI Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany)
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Technical Requirements of Online Voting (Guido Schryen; RWTH Aachen, Germany)
16:45 E-voting and the architecture of virtual space (Anthoula Maidou, Hariton Polatoglou; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
17:30 Day closing remark by chairman
19:00 Transfer to Conference Dinner at Gebhardsberg (with view over Lake of Constance), sponsored by the Regional Government of Vorarlberg

Friday, 9th of July 2004

09:00 The UK deployment of the e-electoral register (Alexandros Xenakis, Ann Macintosh; Napier University, United Kingdom)
09:45 Transparency and e-voting: Democracy vs. Commercial interests (Margaret McGaley, Joe McCarthy; NUI Maynooth, Arkaon; Ireland)
10:30 Elevator Pitch (Jason Kitcat, University of Sussex)
10:40 Coffee Break
11:00 E-Voting in Austria: Legal Requirements and first regulatory steps (Patricia Heindl; WU Vienna, Austria)
11:45 E-Voting in Austria: Organisatorial or Technical Security [1], [2] (Alexander Prosser, Robert Kofler, Robert Krimmer, Martin Karl Unger; WU Vienna, Austria)
12:30 Conference Closing Remarks by Chairman
12:40 Lunch