e-voting

Tuesday the 26th of November 2024

16:00 (Paris)

Electronic voting, or e-voting, consist in using electronic means for casting or counting ballots in elections. For instance, electronic voting machines can be installed at the polling stations, or voters may have the option to cast their ballots online (called internet voting, or i-voting). While e-voting may have the advantages of saving time, reducing costs, and improving accessibility, it also poses some important questions about security of vote secrecy and the possibility of vote verification (especially when performed online). 

Connect here to attend the meet-up: 

https://pantheonsorbonne.zoom.us/j/95036111812?pwd=4q1KepgGzEp3Q2OuFafX552RlhbMki.1

CNRS Senior Researcher on e-voting
(Université de Lorraine, Inria, LORIA, Nancy

How secure is electronic voting?


The advent of electronic voting raises a number of issues in terms of privacy and result correctness: how can I be sure that my vote will be taken into account? Can my neighbour find out how I voted? Can I trust the result announced?

These are perfectly legitimate questions, and electronic voting systems do not yet provide a complete answer.
In this talk, we will present the security challenges of electronic voting and explain our role as third party verifier for the French 2022 Legislative elections. 

Executive Director at VotingWorks and creator of the Helios Voting System
(VotingWorks & Helios Voting System

Helios: a web-based end-to-end verifiable voting system 

Started in 2007, Helios was the first broadly available end-to-end verifiable voting system. In this talk, we'll review the ideas behind Helios, the compromises made in its design, the ways it can be useful, and the ways in which it probably shouldn't be used.
We'll also touch on the question – can a purely electronic, end-to-end verifiable voting system ever really be counted on for high-stakes elections?