this volume constitutes the proceedings of the second international conference on e-voting and idendity, voteid2009, held in luxembourg during september 7-8, 2009. the program committee selected 11 papers for presentation at the conference out of a total of 24 submissions. the selected papers cover a wide range of aspects of voting: proposals for high assurance voting systems, evaluation of existing systems, assessment of public response to electronic voting, and legal aspects. the progam also included a keynote by mark ryan and an invited talk by andrew gumbel, the author of steal this vote!