DIMACS Workshop on Electronic Voting -- Theory and Practice

May 26 - 27, 2004
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

Markus Jakobsson, RSA Laboratories, mjakobsson@rsasecurity.com

Ari Juels, RSA Laboratories, ajuels@rsasecurity.com

Workshop Program:

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

 7:45 -  8:20  Registration - First Floor CoRE Building, DIMACS Center
               Breakfast - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

 8:20 -  8:30  Welcome and Opening Remarks
               Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director

 8:30 -  9:15  Some thoughts on Electronic Voting
               Ron Rivest, MIT (tentative) 

 9:15 - 10:15  Rebecca Mercuri

10:15 - 10:45  Break

10:45 - 11:30  David Chaum, SureVote  

11:30 - 12:15  Theory v. Practice in Electronic Voting
               Michael Shamos, Carnegie Mellon University   

12:15 -  1:30  Lunch

 1:30 -  1:50  European online voting experiences
               Andreu Riera i Jorba, Universitat AutUnoma de Barcelona, Spain

 1:50 -  2:10  Providing Trusted Paths Using Untrusted Components
               Andre Dos Santos, Georgia Institute of Technology

 2:10 -  2:30  Trustworthy Elections Without Paper Ballots:
               Why Vote Receipts Deserve Consideration
               Andy Neff, VoteHere, Inc. 

 2:30 -  2:50  E-voting with Vector Ballots : Homomorphic
               Encryption with Writeins and Shrink-and-Mix networks
               Aggelos Kiayias, University of Connecticut

 2:50 -  3:10  How hard is it to manipulate voting?
               Edith Elkind, Princeton University and
               Helger Lipmaa, Helsinki University of Technology

 3:10 -  3:30  Towards a dependability case for the Chaum e - voting scheme
               Peter Ryan, University of Newcastle, U.K 
 
 3:30 -  3:50  The exact multiplicative complexity of counting votes
               Rene Peralta, Yale

 3:50 -  4:20  Break

 4:20 -  5:05  The Politics of Good Voting Systems
               Rob Richie, Center for Voting and Democracy

 5:05 -  5:50  Panel (moderator: David Chaum)

 6:00 -  7:00  Buffet Dinner - Reception - DIMACS Lounge

Thursday, May 27, 2004

 7:45 -  8:20  Breakfast and Registration - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

 8:20 -  9:05  Hack-a-Vote: Demonstrating Security Issues with Electronic Voting Systems
               Dan Wallach, Rice University

 9:05 -  9:50  Citizen Verified Voting: An implementation of Chaum's voter verifiable scheme
               Poorvi Vora, George Washington University

 9:50 - 10:10  Electronic Voting Systems - Is Brazil ahead of its time?
               Pedro Rezende (represented by Jeroen van de Graaf)

10:10 - 10:30  Voting Technology in Brazil: an assessment
               Jeroen van de Graaf, Fed. Univ. of Minas Gerais, Brazil

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:45  On optical scanning
               Doug Jones, Univerity of Iowa

11:45 -  1:30  Lunch

Internet/remote voting

 1:30 -  2:15  SERVE project
               Barbara Simons, SERVE

 2:15 -  3:00  Moti Yung, Columbia University
 
 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  3:50  A Voting System based on Future Technologies -- A Quantum Voting System
               Tatsuaki Okamoto, NTT Labs, Japan

 3:50 -  4:10  Lessions from Internet voting during 2002 FIFA WorldCup Korea/Japan(TM)
               Kwangjo Kim, Information and Communications University, Korea

 4:10 -  4:30  A network voting system using a mix-net in a Japanese private organization
               Kazue Sako, NEC, Japan 

 4:30 -  4:50  An Unconditionally Secure Electronic Voting Scheme
               Akira Otsuka, Tokyo University, Japan

 4:50 -  5:10  Josh Benaloh, Microsoft Research, USA

Concluding panel

 5:10 -  6:10  Panel organized by Sanford Morganstein, Populex Corp.
               Panelists: Andy Neff, Barbara Simons, Rebecca Mercuri, Doug Jones

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