diff --git a/cmd/end2endtest/plaintext.go b/cmd/end2endtest/plaintext.go
index c45b088ff..e9634bf5f 100644
--- a/cmd/end2endtest/plaintext.go
+++ b/cmd/end2endtest/plaintext.go
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ func (t *E2EPlaintextElection) Run() (duration time.Duration, err error) {
 	api := t.api
 
 	// Set the account in the API client, so we can sign transactions
-	if err := api.SetAccount(hex.EncodeToString(c.accountKeys[0].PrivateKey())); err != nil {
+	if err := api.SetAccount(c.accountPrivKeys[0]); err != nil {
 		log.Fatal(err)
 	}
 
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ func (t *E2EPlaintextElection) Run() (duration time.Duration, err error) {
 	}
 
 	// Generate the voting proofs (parallelized)
-	t.proofs = t.generateProofs(root)
+	t.proofs = t.generateProofs(root, false)
 
 	// Create a new Election
 	description := newDefaultElectionDescription(root, censusURI, uint64(t.config.nvotes))
@@ -106,7 +106,6 @@ func (t *E2EPlaintextElection) Run() (duration time.Duration, err error) {
 	}
 
 	t.election = election
-
 	log.Debugf("election details: %+v", *election)
 
 	// Send the votes (parallelized)