diff --git a/.github/workflows/e2e.yml b/.github/workflows/e2e.yml
index fe5db84b30..1bd8b333fa 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/e2e.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/e2e.yml
@@ -45,11 +45,6 @@ jobs:
           git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
           git config --global user.name "Your Name"
 
-          # Depending on the STATE_TREE_DEPTH param, there 
-          # might be changes in the EmptyBallotRoots.sol file
-          git add contracts/contracts/trees/EmptyBallotRoots.sol
-          git diff --staged --quiet || git commit -m "Commit changes before publishing"
-
           lerna version 0.0.0-ci.$(git rev-parse --short HEAD) --no-push --yes --exact
           lerna publish from-git --dist-tag ci --yes
         env:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index ab2161f204..1583ea536d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -48,11 +48,6 @@ jobs:
           git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
           git config --global user.name "Your Name"
 
-          # Depending on the STATE_TREE_DEPTH param, there
-          # might be changes in the EmptyBallotRoots.sol file
-          git add contracts/contracts/trees/EmptyBallotRoots.sol
-          git diff --staged --quiet || git commit -m "Commit changes before publishing"
-
           pnpm exec lerna publish from-package --yes
         env:
           NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/contracts/contracts/trees/EmptyBallotRoots.sol b/contracts/contracts/trees/EmptyBallotRoots.sol
deleted file mode 100644
index 89a4e9d910..0000000000
--- a/contracts/contracts/trees/EmptyBallotRoots.sol
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
-pragma solidity ^0.8.20;
-
-abstract contract EmptyBallotRoots {
-  // emptyBallotRoots contains the roots of Ballot trees of five leaf
-  // configurations.
-  // Each tree has a depth of 10, which is the hardcoded state tree depth.
-  // Each leaf is an empty ballot. A configuration refers to the depth of the
-  // voice option tree for that ballot.
-
-  // The leaf for the root at index 0 contains hash(0, root of a VO tree with
-  // depth 1 and zero-value 0)
-
-  // The leaf for the root at index 1 contains hash(0, root of a VO tree with
-  // depth 2 and zero-value 0)
-
-  // ... and so on.
-
-  // The first parameter to the hash function is the nonce, which is 0.
-
-  uint256[5] internal emptyBallotRoots;
-
-  constructor() {
-    emptyBallotRoots[0] = uint256(16015576667038038422103932363190100635991292382181099511410843174865570503661);
-    emptyBallotRoots[1] = uint256(166510078825589460025300915201657086611944528317298994959376081297530246971);
-    emptyBallotRoots[2] = uint256(10057734083972610459557695472359628128485394923403014377687504571662791937025);
-    emptyBallotRoots[3] = uint256(4904828619307091008204672239231377290495002626534171783829482835985709082773);
-    emptyBallotRoots[4] = uint256(18694062287284245784028624966421731916526814537891066525886866373016385890569);
-  }
-}