Competence Centre for Electoral Affairs (CCEA)
Electoral affairs were no big issue in the 20th Century. Elections took more or less place in polling stations and the results were regularily so clear, that no one doubted them. Since 2000, when the big legal battle between the attorneys of George W. Bush and Al Gore was fought before the Supreme Courts of Florida and the United States, the situation is different. In recent times majorities became even more narrow, if we take for instance the Election to the State Assembly of Thuringia in 2019, the FDP entered with just 73 votes above the Five-percent-threshold whilst in the Austrian Federal State of Burgenland in 2010 literally one single vote decided about the entry of the "Liste Burgenland" into the State Assembly.
Director
Prof. Dr. Robert Müller-Török
Research area
Distance voting, namely Postal Voting and E-Voting, is the major research field of the Competence Centre and its Director, Prof. Dr. Müller-Török for a couple of years. The Centre has produced long list of scientific publications, speeches and presentations (list of publications/Liste der Publikationen) as well as projects so far.
Partners
The Competence Centre closely cooperates with the Forum E-Government of the Austrian Computer Society and with several experts in Europe with a focus on the Danube Strategy Region.
Recent speeches and panel discussions (virtual due to pandemic)
30/3/2021 (forthcoming): Discussion „Spot|on|OZG BW: OZG-Umsetzung in der Fläche“ with Dr. Michael Zügel, Marian Schreier and Robert Geist; Digitaler Staat organized by Behörden Spiegel.
10/3/2021: Presentation „Briefwahl: Alte, ungelöste Probleme, verschärft durch intensivere Nutzung und knappe Wahlergebnisse“ and discussion „Wie beeinflusst die COVID-19-Pandemie den Ablauf der Landtagswahl 2021 in Baden-Württemberg?“, with Professor Arne Pautsch and Professor Rafael Bauschke. Open Lecture 6; Hochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung und Finanzen.
5/3/2021: Austrian Computer Society, Webinar with Professor Alexander Prosser „COVID-19-Impf-Kampagne: Was Österreich von anderen Ländern lernen kann“.
15/2/2021: Online Lecture “An Introduction into Artificial Intelligence – a webinar as part of the project “Danube Region acute”; Europa Zentrum Baden-Württemberg und Hochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung und Finanzen.
Contact information
Prof. Dr. Robert Müller-Török
Room: 6.032
Phone: +49 7141 140-552
mueller-toeroek(at)hs-ludwigsburg(dot)de