On April 25, 2007, as part of a series of meetings in Washington, DC and Santa Monica, CA, Caltech VTP members hosted a seminar at Caltech with several academics and government officials from Switzerland to discuss internet voting.  Below are the agenda and presentations. View photos.

Context of E-Voting in Switzerland
Alex Trechsel (European University Institute, Florence, Italy)

• specialties of the political system in Switzerland (direct democracy, federalism)
• e-voting experiences in Europe (incl. work of Council of Europe etc.)
• socio-demographic and political impacts of e-voting

Max Klaus (Scientific Officer in Swiss Federal Chancellery)

• What the Confederation means by "e-voting" (or "Vote electronique")
• Swiss approach to e-voting (three different systems and the main differences between them)
• advantages and disadvantages of e-voting
• possible further development (2 more cantons will join the existing three cantons in introducing e-voting)

Andreas Ladner (Professor, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration [IDHEAP])

• challenges of e-democracy (not only e-voting)
• e-democracy applications other than what the Confederation means by "e-voting" e.g. smartvote)
• NCCR and main results

Context of E-Voting in the United States
Michael Alvarez (Caltech, VTP): Remote Internet Voting in the U.S.
Thad Hall (University of Utah, VTP): The E-Voting Revolution
Jonathan Katz (Caltech, VTP) Forensics and auditing

E-Voting Solutions
Valerie Christinet (IT analyst, Canton of Neuchatel)

• Neuchatel e-voting project

Michel Chevallier (Head of Cabinet for the Chancellor of the State of Geneva)
Victor Emmanuel De Sa (Switzerland-based Internet Voting Security Expert, Geneva Solutions)

• Geneva e-voting project