#electionguard

Microsoft demos end-to-end open source voting verification system ElectionGuard, code will be on GitHub

 ElectionGuard aims to enable end-to-end verification of voting. Voters receive a tracking code and can check via a web portal that their vote has been counted, and, crucially, not altered. The portal does not show the content of the vote, protecting voter confidentiality. "It will not be possible to 'hack' the vote without detection," said Microsoft's Tom Burt, CVP of Customer Security and Trust, in a post about the company's latest efforts to counter threats against democracy.

 The system uses homomorphic encryption to allow data to be used in computation while still encrypted.

 The important thing here is that open source allows many researchers and security people to inspect the code and suggest improvements and this is way better than secret/proprietary code that no-one can see. Microsoft itself is not going to be involved in making these systems and open-sourcing means anyone could use it in different countries to benefit democracy.

 See https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/18/microsoft_demos_electionguard_system_will_publish_code_on_github/

 #microsoft #ElectionGuard #opensource

 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/18/microsoft_demos_electionguard_system_will_publish_code_on_github/

With ElectionGuard, Microsoft is trying to fix a growing global problem

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Microsoft has announced the ElectionGuard software developer kit (SDK), along with a new tool within Microsoft 365 called CampaignGuard, at Build 2019 in Seattle, Washington. Both software packages will try to secure elections and make it more malicious for malicious parties to mess with.

The ElectionGuard SDK is distributed free of charge to manufacturers and suppliers of voting systems,…