12th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting
A Workshop Associated with Financial Crypto 2027
12 February 2027
Accra Beach Hotel & Spa
Barbados
Call for Papers
Elections are fundamental to democracy and in recent years benefited from a number of advances in digitalization, including digital administration and governance. Beyond real-world and boardroom elections, electronic voting systems have additionally been used as part of governance for Decentralised Autonomous Organisation, achieving consensus for blockchain transactions, and community moderation for online platforms.
Secure voting schemes, particularly cryptographically end-to-end (E2E) verifiable schemes, have been extensively researched over the past twenty years. However, real-world vulnerabilities present in voting systems have heightened the scrutiny of electoral security. Further, voting schemes face challenges in achieving and maintaining properties like (E2E-) verifiability, coercion resistance, dispute resolution, high usability, good user experience, and accountability within complex, adversarial environments.
Addressing these challenges and many others requires a deep understanding of modern cryptography, information security, and human factors. Moreover, investigating electronic voting is interdisciplinary, demanding knowledge of governmental roles, voter behaviour, physical components, procedural methods, and legal and regulatory frameworks.
Important Dates
| Abstract registration | 23 November 2026 |
| Paper submission | 1 December 2026 |
| Paper notification | 22 December 2026 |
| Discussion panel submission | Rolling deadline until 1 February 2027 |
Paper Submissions
Submission website: To be announced soon!
Papers should contain original research in any area related to electronic voting technologies, verifiable elections, and related concerns. Submissions will be judged based on originality, relevance, correctness, and clarity. Example topics include but are not limited to:
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Elections (see note)
- Attacks on existing protocols or systems
- Authentication and voter registration
- Blockchain voting
- Cryptographic and non-cryptographic verifiable election schemes
- Designs of new protocols or systems
- Election and Practical Experiences (need to include rigorous analysis and constitute original research)
- Formal or informal security or requirements analysis
- Human-Computer Interaction in electronic voting
- Implementations of protocols or systems and recommended improvements
- Procedures for ballot and election auditing
The workshop solicits submissions of manuscripts that represent significant and novel research contributions. Submissions must not substantially overlap with work that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings.
Submissions should follow the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format. The following types of submissions are possible:
- Full papers: completed research, limit of 15 pages, *including* references and well-marked appendices
- Short papers: work in progress, novel applications and voting experiences, limit of 8 pages, *including* references and well-marked appendices; the title of such submissions must be preceded with the label “Short paper”
- Systematization of Knowledge papers: limit of 15 pages, *excluding* references and well-marked appendices; the title of such submissions must be preceded with the label “SoK.
The review process will be double-blind. Submitted papers must be anonymized with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references.
Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Authors who seek to submit their work to journals may opt out by publishing an extended abstract only.
Note for topic - Artificial Intelligence and Elections. We also welcome submissions that use AI techniques for electronic voting systems, focusing on at least one of the following directions: identify and analyse threats and vulnerabilities, demonstrate attacks and vulnerabilities, suggest or aid in designing countermeasures. Authors are invited to email the chairs with an abstract to confirm if the paper is in scope.
Discussion Panel Submissions
The workshop is also organizing a discussion panel, and we’re inviting speakers to send topics. We will employ rolling deadline with a first-come, first served basis until all slots are filled. As a commitment, we require that people with selected topics to attend in-person.
To submit, email both organizers with an extended abstract (non-anonymous submission, 1 page for main body, and up to two pages for references). These will not appear in the LNCS proceedings.
Program Chairs
| Karola Marky | Ruhr University Bochum, Germany |
| Constantin Catalin Dragan | University of Surrey, UK |
Program Committee
To be announced soon!