Programme 2026

A PhD Colloquium and IVXV Live Walkthrough on 6 October, followed by three days of keynotes, paper sessions and practitioner talks on the science and practice of e-voting. Draft programme — subject to change. All times are local to Tallinn (Europe/Tallinn).

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Tuesday, 6 October

Post-Quantum Cryptography 08:00–10:30

PhD Colloquium — closed event

Blockchain & Fuzzing 10:30–11:30

PhD Colloquium — closed event

Applied Elections 12:30–13:50

PhD Colloquium — closed event

Wednesday, 7 October

08:00–08:45Registration and Welcome Coffee
08:45Opening
Governance Track 09:00–10:00

Mathias Wessel Tromborg

“The Role of Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) in Representative Democracy”

Moderator: Leontine Loeber

Coffee Break10:00–10:45
Technical Track 10:45–11:40

Verifiable Voting

Session chair: Véronique Cortier

10:45–11:1025 min
SoK: Recommendations for universally verifiable electronic elections and independent audits
Audhild Høgåsen, Tjerand Silde, Chiara Spadafora and Amund Fredrik Strømsnes
11:10–11:2515 min
Vote (In)Secure: Breaking Privacy and Verifiability in an SDK for Electronic Voting
Florian Moser, Olivier Pereira and Vanessa Teague
11:25–11:4015 min
MAYAsk: Swiss-knife extensions to the MAYA logarithmic shuffle argument
Thi Van Thao Doan, Olivier Pereira and Thomas Peters
Coffee Break11:40–12:00
Governance Track 12:00–12:55

Trust in Elections

Session chair: Leontine Loeber

12:00–12:2525 min
“In my opinion, the auditing steps are sufficient.” – Trust in elections, tallying software, and risk-limited auditing
Christian Mack, Tobias Hilt and Melanie Volkamer
12:25–12:4015 min
Institutional vs Technological Trust in Internet Voting: Evidence from Estonia
David Duenas-Cid, Bogdan Romanov and Peeter Leets
12:40–12:5515 min
Perceptions of Coercion and Vote-Buying in Remote Voting Across Corruption Contexts
Christina Frederikke Nissen, Oksana Kulyk, Jurlind Budurushi and Melanie Volkamer
Lunch13:00–14:45
Practitioners’ Track 14:45–15:35

Session chair: Thomas Hofer

14:45–15:1025 min
Automated procedures in the Hungarian election administration
Attila Nagy and Márta Péter-Delbó
15:10–15:3525 min
Trust Without a Trusted Source: Census-Level Result Verification of the Tally-Sheet Chain in Honduras’s 2025 Election
Tomás Barros, Mario Cornejo, Mario Novoa, Felipe Lorca and Joaquín González
Coffee Break15:35–16:15
Technical Track 16:15–17:30

Privacy and Coercion-Resistance

Session chair: Vanessa Teague

16:15–16:4025 min
Deniable Vote Updating with Eligibility Verifiability via Span Proofs
Janis Erdmanis
16:40–17:0525 min
FiltrumVote: Scalable, Verifiable, and Coercion-Resistant Internet Voting
Leonardo T. Kimura, Dimitri Leskow, Diego F. Aranha, Roberto Araújo and Marcos Simplicio
17:05–17:3025 min
A Simple Protocol for Tracker Based Voting
Rosario Giustolisi, Peter Y. A. Ryan and Maryam Sheikhi Garjan

Thursday, 8 October

Technical Track 09:00–10:00

Kristian Gjøsteen

“Post-quantum voting: What, Why, When, How?”

Moderator: Pierrick Gaudry

Coffee Break10:00–10:30
Practitioners’ Track 10:30–11:10

Session chair: Christian Mack

10:30–10:4515 min
Yes? No? Veto! - Non-Interactive Constant-Time Voting with Veto
Hasti Khajeh, Ivo Maffei and Peter Roenne
10:45–11:1025 min
Deploying Blockchain-Based Voting: Lessons from a Nationwide Referendum
Felix Maduakor, Jurlind Budurushi and Joerg Mitzlaff
Coffee Break11:10–11:35
Governance Track 11:35–12:30

Internet Voting

Session chair: Leontine Loeber

11:35–12:0025 min
Voting from Exile under attack: The 2026 Coordination Council of Belarus Election on the Vocdoni Protocol
Ferran Reyes
12:00–12:2525 min
It Doesn’t Take a Thief: How Optical-Scan Ballot Tabulators Fail Without Adversaries (SoK)
Aleksander Essex and Philip Stark
Lunch12:30–14:45
Technical Track 14:45–16:00

Risk-Limiting Audits

Session chair: Olivier Pereira

14:45–15:1025 min
Advances in STV Margin Computation
Michelle Blom, Alexander Ek, Peter J. Stuckey, Vanessa Teague and Damjan Vukcevic
15:10–15:3525 min
Risk-Limiting Audits for Parliamentary Majorities
Jack Freestone, Damjan Vukcevic and Dennis Leung
15:35–16:0025 min
Peel and Vote: A Paper Ballot Design for Publicly Verifiable Risk-Limiting Audits
Jack Nolan, Yasmine Vazirinejad, Siamak Shahandashti and Feng Hao
Coffee Break16:00–16:30
Practitioners’ Track 16:30–17:20

Session chair: Olivier Leclère

16:30–16:5525 min
Accidentally Simulating Manipulation during Real Election - but hardly anyone cares?
Melanie Volkamer, Florian Moser and Tobias Hilt
16:55–17:2025 min
Preparing EMBs for Digital Threats and Legal Challenges: Lessons from Lithuania, France and Romania
Pascaline Krone, Typhaine Roblot and Rokas Stabingis
Panel: How can EMBs integrate academic research in new tools, implementation and management? from 17:20

Chair: Goran Petrov (OSCE-ODIHR)

Panelists: Leontine Loeber (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Vanessa Teague (Thinking Cybersecurity), Pascaline Krone (Partnership 4 Integrity), Carsten Schurmann (IT University of Copenhagen)

Friday, 9 October

Practitioners’ Track 09:00–10:15

Priit Vinkel and Ajay Patel

“Who Do We Trust Now? Technology and Tomorrow’s Elections”

Moderator: David Duenas-Cid

Coffee Break10:15–10:45
Technical Track 10:45–12:25

New Applications and Protocols

Session chair: Chiara Spadafora

10:45–11:1025 min
SoK: On the Design of Secure Ranking-based E-voting Systems
Luke Harrison, Feng Hao, Bowen Zheng and Bingsheng Zhang
11:10–11:3525 min
Privacy Preserving Opinion Aggregation
Aggelos Kiayias, Vanessa Teague and Orfeas Stefanos Thyfronitis Litos
11:35–12:0025 min
École: Privacy in Diversity
Florian Moser and Léo Louistisserand
12:00–12:2525 min
Does internet voting benefit down-ballot candidates? A look at patterns from 1992 to 2023 in Estonia
Mihkel Solvak and Erik S. Herron
Coffee Break12:25–12:40
Rump Session 12:40–13:25

Chair: Thomas Hofer

13:25Final Words
Lunch13:45–14:45
14:45The end in Mustpeade Maja
Draft programme — subject to change.