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Prof. Krimmer to chair a leading conference on e-voting
RNS is co-organizing EVOTE2014, the 6th International Conference on Electronic Voting taking place in Lochau and Bregenz, Austria, and which is one of the leading international events for e-voting experts from all over the world. One of its major objectives is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary and open discussion of all issues relating to electronic voting.
Professor Robert Krimmer chairs the conference together with Professor Melanie Volkamer from TU Darmstadt, Germany. The conference is held on 29-31 October 2014 and welcomes 110 participants who will discuss the recent developments in electronic voting, in particular experiences from Estonia, Ecuador, Argentina, the US but also from Lithuania or Australia.
Cumulatively with the events in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012 more than 550 experts from over 40 countries have attended this conference to discuss electronic voting and related topics. In so doing, they have established Bregenz as a regular forum and point of reference for the scientific community working with e-voting. As the conference is having its tenth anniversary, the program is focused around looking back and seeing what has been accomplished since 2004 and discussing the new phenomenon of verifiability in elections.
In addition to the conference, the Council of Europe will hold a review meeting on the day before the conference to discuss the 2004 Recommendation on Electronic Voting, the only international recognized legal document on the topic.
