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E-Vote-ID 2021: COVID pandemic has encouraged the development and implementation of e-voting system across the globe
COVID pandemic has encouraged the development and implementation of e-voting system across the globe
E-Vote-ID 2021 – The Sixth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting, 5 – 9 October 2021
At the beginning of October every year, the E-Vote-ID brings together international e-voting specialists from academia, politics, government and industry. Over the years e-Vote-ID has developed into a global, interdisciplinary, and open forum for discussing various aspects of electronic voting and to learn about the most recent developments in electronic voting.
The conference was brought to life and has been led ever since by Prof Robert Krimmer, holder of the ECePS ERA Chair and professor of e-governance at the University of Tartu. Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies was very well represented this year – we congratulate Piret Ehin and Mihkel Solvak for the best paper award in the track of Administrative, Legal, Political and Social Issues. Their paper “Party cues and trust in remote internet voting: data from Estonia 2005-2019” was awarded for an excellent academic work.
The first day of the conference was opened by Matthew Masterson from Stanford Internet Observatory, highlighting the new challenges voting and democracy are facing in the light of disinformation and changed conditions due to global pandemic. “Election officials are tasked with new level of challenges to give voters evidence of the integrity and credibility of elections, because the election loser cannot acknowledge that they lost and is thus spreading misinformation”, he explained.
Former president Toomas Hendrik Ilves gave a keynote speech, opening the second day, reflecting on the importance of a whole, functioning, and trusted digital ecosystem for a successful implementation of i-voting. The trust topic found its way into most of the discussions during all conference days.
The third day was opened with a keynote by Daniel Popescu (Head of the Department of Democracy and Governance, Council of Europe) who talked about the work of the Council of Europe in the area of electoral assistance and present the guidelines for the use of technology in elections. He clarified, “Trust in authorities’ is all-time low. However, trust in the government is crucial for democracy. E-voting is a black box to many voters, which is why they find paper voting more trustworthy. The Council of Europe has several recommendations to governments to avoid anti-democratic activities in organising their i- and paper voting systems.”.
This year’s conference was a great success with a record number of more than 200 participants from over 35 countries. The presentations of all 11 E-Vote-ID sessions reflected on a wide range of aspects, challenges, and issues concerning e-voting. Such as verifiability, behavioural aspects and trust, cyber security, Risk Limiting Audits, election integrity, voter privacy, and usability. From fundamental questions about how to ensure that the software correctly reflects the citizens’ votes, to the question of “Why is internet voting still lacking implementation and what about trust towards the remote voting technology?”, over to the risks of cyber-attacks and manipulation of election results, and finally taking a closer look at the milestones to deploying e-voting.
The proceeding are published by UT press: https://dspace.ut.ee/handle/10062/74533 and a selection of the best papers are available at Springer: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-86942-7
Save the Date! The seventh edition of the E-Vote-ID will take place in a hybrid format on 4th to 7th October 2022. For more information visit: https://e-vote-id.org/