From the Parliament to a Polling Station: How to Make Electoral Laws More Comprehensible to Election Administrators

This article suggests that law modelling (using Business Process Model and Notation, BPMN) could make electoral laws more comprehensible to different stakeholders, and in particular, to election administration, especially in the cases of complex elections with multiple voting channels. This solution helps election administrators to translate the complexity of electoral laws into clear instructions. By this, election administration can adapt to the frequent changes in laws, reach better regulatory compliance, and address the barriers they meet during the delivery of the elections, like overtasking and lack of institutional memory. As a proof of the concept, we demonstrate the applicability of the proposed solution by modelling one voting channel available in the 2019 parliamentary elections in Estonia, advance voting. The article contributes to the theory on election administration, and suggests how this solution could be used in practice: in the field of the electoral law, and outside of it

Seventh International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting

This volume contains papers presented at E-Vote-ID 2022, the Seventh International JointConference on Electronic Voting, held during October 4–7, 2022. This was the first in-personconference following the COVID-19 pandemic, and, as such, it was a very special event forthe community since we returned to the traditional venue in Bregenz, Austria. The E-Vote-IDconference resulted from merging EVOTE and Vote-ID, and 18 years have now elapsed sincethe first EVOTE conference in Austria.Since that conference in 2004, over 1500 experts have attended the venue, including scholars,practitioners, authorities, electoral managers, vendors, and PhD students. E-Vote-ID collectsthe most relevant debates on the development of electronic voting, from aspects relating tosecurity and usability through to practical experiences and applications of voting systems, alsoincluding legal, social, or political aspects, amongst others, turning out to be an importantglobal referent on these issues

Sixth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting E-Vote-ID 2021. 5-8 October 2021

This volume contains papers presented at E-Vote-ID 2021, the Sixth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting, held during October 5-8, 2021. Due to the extraordinary situation provoked by Covid-19 Pandemic, the conference is held online for second consecutive edition, instead of in the traditional venue in Bregenz, Austria. E-Vote-ID Conference resulted from the merging of EVOTE and Vote-ID and counting up to 17 years since the _rst E-Vote conference in Austria. Since that conference in 2004, over 1000 experts have attended the venue, including scholars, practitioners, authorities, electoral managers, vendors, and PhD Students. The conference collected the most relevant debates on the development of Electronic Voting, from aspects relating to security and usability through to practical experiences and applications of voting systems, also including legal, social or political aspects, amongst others; turning out to be an important global referent in relation to this issue. Also, this year, the conference consisted of: · Security, Usability and Technical Issues Track · Administrative, Legal, Political and Social Issues Track · Election and Practical Experiences Track · PhD Colloquium, Poster and Demo Session on the day before the conference E-VOTE-ID 2021 received 49 submissions, being, each of them, reviewed by 3 to 5 program committee members, using a double blind review process. As a result, 27 papers were accepted for its presentation in the conference. The selected papers cover a wide range of topics connected with electronic voting, including experiences and revisions of the real uses of E-voting systems and corresponding processes in elections. We would also like to thank the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik) with its ECOM working group and KASTEL for their partnership over many years. Further we would like to thank the Swiss Federal Chancellery and the Regional Government of Vorarlberg for their kind support. EVote- ID 2021 conference is kindly supported through European Union's Horizon 2020 projects ECEPS (grant agreement 857622) and mGov4EU (grant agreement 959072). Special thanks go to the members of the international program committee for their hard work in reviewing, discussing, and shepherding papers. They ensured the high quality of these proceedings with their knowledge and experience

Nowe partie w wyborach parlamentarnych w Polsce w latach 2011 i 2015: analiza czynników wpływających na ich wynik wyborczy

Niniejsza praca magisterska jest poświęcona nowym partiom politycznym, które uczestniczyły w wyborach parlamentarnych w 2011 i 2015 roku w Polsce. Inspiracją do badania jest fakt, że wiele z tych partii weszło do parlamentu w wyniku ich pierwszych wyborów, podczas gdy w 2001 r. żadna nowa partie nie weszła do parlamentu. Głównymi pytaniami badawczymi są: „Co nowego proponują nowe partie w Polsce? Co przyczynia się do ich sukcesu wyborczego?” Dlatego też obiektem tych badań są nowe partie w Polsce, ich wyniki wyborcze i czynniki, które mogą przyczynić się do sukcesu wyborczego. Badania nie określą jednoznacznie wszystkich powodów sukcesu nowych partii, ale raczej dostarczają szczegółowej analizy i porównania czynników przyczyniających się do ich sukcesu, które uważa się za najważniejsze w literaturze. W badaniach brano pod uwagę następujące ogólne czynniki: przywództwo partii, „nowość” kandydatów partii, zasoby finansowe, ideologia. W toku badań okazało się, że szczegółowe czynniki najistotniejsze dla sukcesu wyborczego nowej partii to finansowanie kampanii, poziom zaufania do lidera partii oraz różnice ideologiczne w stosunku do innych ugrupowań.This thesis is devoted to new parties which participated in 2011 and 2015 parliamentary elections in Poland. The puzzle of this research arises from the fact that many of these parties have entered the Parliament after their very first elections, while previously no new parties had entered the Parliament since 2001. The main research questions are “What is new about new parties in Poland? What contributes to new parties’ electoral success?” Therefore, the objective of this research is the new parties in Poland, their electoral results and factors which can contribute to the electoral success. The research does not name literally all reasons for new parties’ success, but rather provides a detailed analysis and comparison of contributing factors, which are claimed to be the most important for a party success in the literature. The following factors are considered in this research: party leadership, “newness” of party candidates, financial resources, ideology. All chosen factors considered, what appears to matter for electoral success of a new party is the campaign finance, the level of trust in a party leader, presence of a signature issue and distinguishable from other parties’ ideology

Verifiability Experiences in Ontario’s 2022 Online Elections

Despite being one of the biggest international users of online voting with two decades of use, Canada has tended to use non-verifiable online voting systems. This has prompted concern about the verification of election results and potential impacts on public and administrator confidence in elections and democracy. In the 2022 Ontario municipal elections, however, about 9% of municipalities offered the option of individual verifiability to online voters. This article draws upon the experiences of two local governments of different sizes, resources, capacity, and online voting histories - Ignace and Markham - and their vendors to understand the considerations and challenges that come with the introduction of verifiability mechanisms in local elections. We identify deterrents to implementation and possible solutions to see an increase in uptake and improve the integrity of local elections