The lecture will be held as a hybrid event.
The venue for the face-to-face event is TU Darmstadt. The exact room will be announced.
The event will be held online via MS Teams.

If you take part in a presentation, you will have the opportunity to meet and exchange with the key players in cybersecurity in person after the lecture.

Abstract

Free, secret, universal and equal elections are the core element of democracies. In many cases the default voting channel is the paper one (i.e. votes are cast on paper either in the polling station or at home and then send via postal service to some central place). However, due to the pandemic, more and more election management boards considered using remote electronic voting systems and several decided to actually offer an electronic voting channel. In particular, in Germany, often, so called black box voting systems are used while researchers have been proposing end-to-end verifiable voting schemes. In this talk, Melanie Volkamer will discuss risks of black box voting systems as well as challenges of end-to-end verifiable voting schemes. The focus will be voter behaviour related challenges and how these challenges can be addressed when taking a human centred approach.  

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