EVT '08 Call for Papers

[Lionel Garth Jones]

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2008 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT '08)
July 28-29, 2008
San Jose, CA, USA
Sponsored by USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association, and
ACCURATE: A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and
Transparent Elections
Refereed paper submissions due: March 28, 2008, 11:59 p.m. PDT
Panel proposals due: May 2, 2008
http://www.usenix.org/evt08/cfpa
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The Call for Papers for the 2008 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting
Technology Workshop is now available.

EVT '08 seeks to bring together researchers from a variety of
disciplines, ranging from computer science and human-computer
interaction experts through political scientists, legal experts,
election administrators, and voting equipment vendors. EVT seeks to
publish original research on important problems in all aspects of
electronic voting. We welcome papers on voting topics including but
not limited to:

- Voter registration and pre-voting
- Vote collection
- Vote tabulation
- Post-election auditing
- Design, implementation, and evaluation of new voting technologies
and protocols
- Scientific evaluations of existing voting technologies
- System testing methodologies
- Deployment and lifecycle issues
- Threat mitigation
- Usability
- Accessibility
- Legal issues, including ADA, HAVA, intellectual property, and
nondisclosure agreements on voting system evaluations
- Issues with and evolution of voting technology standards

The submission deadline for refereed papers is 11:59 p.m. PDT on
Friday, March 28, 2008. Paper submission guidelines can be found at
http://www.usenix.org/evt08/cfpa

In addition to paper presentations, the workshop may include panel
discussions with substantial time devoted to questions and answers.
Proposals for panels should include a brief abstract, a list of possible
panelists and their affiliations, and an indication of which of those
panelists have confirmed participation. Panel proposals are due May 2,
2008. Please submit proposals to evt08panels at usenix.org.

EVT '08 will be a two-day event, Monday, July 28, and Tuesday, July 29,
2008, co-located with the 17th USENIX Security Symposium in San Jose,
California.

We look forward to your submissions.

David Dill, Stanford University
Tadayoshi Kohno, University of Washington
EVT '08 Program Chairs

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2008 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT '08)
July 28-29, 2008
San Jose, CA, USA
Sponsored by USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association, and
ACCURATE: A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and
Transparent Elections
Refereed paper submissions due: March 28, 2008, 11:59 p.m. PDT
Panel proposals due: May 2, 2008
http://www.usenix.org/evt08/cfpa
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