Design, Development, and Use of Secure Electronic Voting Systems

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We would like to invite you to contribute manuscripts for consideration and publication in “Design, Development, and Use of Secure Electronic Voting Systems”. This publication edited by Professor Lekkas and myself, is scheduled for publication by IGI Global in 2013. We are currently inviting prospective authors to submit their manuscript proposals for peer review . Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 30 July 30 2012 (extended), a 1-2 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by July 30 2012 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by September 30 2012. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Accordingly, this call for book chapters will assemble an edited collection of chapters covering various aspects of electronic voting, but with emphasis on design and development in respect to security.

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The Editors,

Dr. Dimitrios Zissis & Dr. Dimitrios Lekkas

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Important Dates

Opening Date: April 16, 2012

Proposal Submission Deadline: May 30, Deadline extended to July 30, 2012

Results to Authors: June 30, 2012 July 30, 2012

Full chapter Submission: September 30, 2012

Review Results to Authors: November 30, 2012

Revised Chapter Submission: December 30, 2012

Final Acceptance Notifications: January 31, 2013

Editorial advisory board

The editors will be advised and supported by an Editorial Advisory Board (EAB), consisting of leading experts from the academia and industry. The current members of the EAB include:

  • Frank Bannister, PhD. Head of Information Systems. Associate Professor at Trinity College, Dublin
  • Christos K. Georgiadis, PhD. Assistant Professor, University of Macedonia, Greece
  • Stefanos Gritzalis, PhD. Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Greece and the Director of the Laboratory of Information and Communication Systems Security (Info-Sec-Lab)
  • Manuel J. Kripp, MSc. Managing Director E-Voting.CC GmbH , Vienna, Austria
  • Costas Lambrinoudakis, PhD. Assistant Professor Department of Digital Systems University of Piraeus, Greece
  • Tarvi Martens, MSc. Project Manager for Internet Voting at Estonian National Electoral Committe & Development Director, Certification Centre, Estonia
  • Diomidis Spinellis,PhD. Professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
  • Konstantinos Tserpes, PhD. Lecturer at Harokopion University and Post-Doc Research Engineer at National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  • Melanie Volkamer, PhD. Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science TU Darmstadt
  • Komminist Weldemariam, PhD. Tenure track researcher at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published in 2013 by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com

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Call for Chapters

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are silently being introduced in various stages of the electoral process, to speed up tallying, result transmission, ballot casting and increase the accuracy of elections, while aiming at reducing overall costs. It is now a common fact that in almost all elections held internationally, at some point sooner or later, an Information System is introduced; either for end day result transmission, voter list generation or even vote casting. It is becoming apparent that the basic question no longer focuses on whether ICT should be accepted in the electoral process, but rather on what kind of technology should be implemented, at which stage and to what extent.
For almost two decades now, countries worldwide, have been conducting trials and holding pilots to evaluate the benefits and detriments of this introduction; while some countries have successfully implemented state of the art electronic voting solutions others have decided to abandon all attempts. Across the field, we can see a multitude of different approaches, revealing the wide diversification of political cultures, legal regulations, social requirements and contexts, within which this technology must be deployed. The approaches adopted can thus seem to be contradictory, or indeed diametrically opposed.
Even the term “Electronic Voting”, is constantly used ambiguously to describe a variety of technology mediated electoral processes. In general, two types of e-voting can be identified: e-voting supervised by the physical presence of representatives of governmental or independent electoral authorities, and remote e-voting where vote casting takes place within the voter’s sole influence, not physically supervised by representatives of governmental authorities, like voting from one’s own or another person’s computer via the internet. In this publication we shall concentrate on remote (or sometimes referred to as Internet) electronic voting, as this field seems highly contradictory in results, implementations and approaches.
Proponents of electronic voting believe that it may have the capacity to engage citizens in a wider political spectrum than what is currently available in a conventional electoral process’, as it provides citizens with the means to express their timely opinion on civil affairs such as legislation, representative selection and other procedures. From this viewpoint, electronic voting is viewed as having the capacity to widen participation while increasing turnout, by providing a participation channel with improved usability accessibility. On the other hand, concerns are often voiced regarding security and privacy issues but also on the sociological and political implications that may arise from the introduction of this technology.

Overall Objectives and Mission

For almost two decades now, countries across the globe, have been conducting trials and holding pilots to evaluate the benefits and detriments of electronic voting in an asynchronous and decentralized manner. In some countries electronic voting has been successfully deployed, while others have decided to completely abandon these projects. This publication shall attempt to shed light on the field and provide a concise analysis on the successes, but most critically, the failures encountered during these years. We shall attempt to exorcise complexity and reevaluate under a perspicacious vision, the conflicting issues while reviewing the developments that have occurred in the field over the last two decades. A methodological analysis of experiences shall lead to the development of a design framework, with recommendations of considerations that can assist in decisions regarding deployment choices, but also system features, prerequisites and requirements. This publication shall add to the existing body of knowledge in the field, by providing a homogenous design framework on e-voting, developed from asynchronous contributions by researchers, scholars, stakeholders and enablers across the field. This publication shall attempt to evaluate, if the field of electronic voting has reached a stage of relative maturity due to the intense research and scrutiny that has occurred in the field over recent years.

Scholarly Value, Potential Contribution/Impact and Purpose

As countries and states globally are approaching the issue in an asynchronous method, it is becoming of vital importance that these detached research initiatives are homogenisedand the results are unified. This publication shall provide a constructive framework for the development of electronic voting, while providing an avenue for the cooperation and synchronization of otherwise asymmetrical research approaches on the issues explored. Overall this publication shall lead to the development of a design framework with recommendations of considerations that can assist in decisions regarding deployment choices but also system features, prerequisites and requirements.

Recommended Topics

The list of topics includes (but not limited to):

  • Electronic Democracy& Electronic government( Past, Present & Future)
  • Electronic voting & Security
  • Electronic Voting Experiences
  • Future e-Voting
  • Mobile Voting
  • Cryptography and elections (Past and Curerrent)
  • Best Practices in the field
  • Limitations of electronic voting proposals
  • Electronic Identification
  • Electronic Participation
  • Privacy & Anonymity
  • Electronic Voting & Usability
  • Dimensions of electronic voting
    • Legal requirements, prerequisites and implications,
    • Political requirements, prerequisites and implications,
    • Societal requirements, prerequisites and implications
    • Technical requirements, prerequisites and implications
  • Past/Current Status-lessons learned
    • Technical Lessons: Design features, prerequisites, failures etc.
    • Political Lessons
    • Social Lessons: Required features, Impact on Turnout, Accessibility, Usability, Social Design needs, failures to meet social acceptance etc.

 

Intended Audience

This publication shall attract enablers, stakeholders, researchers, Information Systems architects, designers, implementers and scholars interested in developing or researching electronic voting solutions. A methodological analysis of two decades of experience in the field, shall lead to the development of a design framework with recommendations of considerations that can assist in decisions regarding deployment choices, but also system features, prerequisites and requirements. This proposed publication shall assist stakeholders and enablers in their decision to implement electronic voting, but also it presents a practical support tool for IS architects, designers, implementers and researchers, to understanding the ambiguities, complexities and necessities of such an IS. This framework attempts to shed light on the unavoidable perplexities and provide a support tool with recommendations of considerations which can assist in the design process. Additionally this publication shall add to the existing body of knowledge in the field by homogenizing and evaluating asynchronous research attempts.

 

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