Discussion

• @purassan Carlo Purassanta on x

  ElectionGuard, which we announced in May 2019, is open source software that will make elections more secure and end-to-end verifiable, enabling people to confirm their votes were counted and not altered #modernlife #election http://www.linkedin.com/leap/r

• @randfish Rand Fishkin on x

  This could be Microsoft's most important product... If it works. https://www.cnet.com/... - excited to see Microsoft blending old-school, double-checkable paper ballots in order to make hacking easily noticed (vs. the impossible task of trying to prevent it altogether). https://t…

• @diakopter Matt W on x

  @thespybrief @fmbutt On Tuesday, Microsoft's provably-tamper-evident ElectionGuard will be used in a local vote in Fulton, Wisconsin. “The software is designed to establish end-to-end verification for voting machines. A voter can check whether his or her vote was counted.” https:…

• @richardjnieva Richard Nieva on x

  Hope this works, but as we saw in Iowa, election tech is extremely tricky to implement. Would be interesting to hear feedback after the Wisconsin pilot. https://www.cnet.com/...

• @foxcahn Albert Fox Cahn on x

  Dear America: don't digitize elections. That is all. https://twitter.com/...

• @alfredwkng @alfredwkng on x

  Microsoft is not promising to make votes “unhackable” (most experts agree that's impossible). What ElectionGuard wants to do is make it so that hacks on its encrypted vote are easily detected and verified against paper ballots https://www.cnet.com/...

• @alfredwkng @alfredwkng on x

  New: Microsoft is testing its end-to-end verification voter system for the first time today in a local Wisconsin election with about 500 registered voters. ElectionGuard has potential, but there are many ways it could go wrong. Our dive: https://www.cnet.com/...

• @alfredwkng @alfredwkng on x

  Even if the technology was perfect, elections have a lot of moving parts and it opens up many ways for ElectionGuard to fail. For instance, researchers found that only 6% of voters reported errors on ballots: https://www.cnet.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @kimzetter Kim Zetter on x

  Voters in a Wisconsin town will be the first to use Microsoft's new ElectionGuard open-source technology in a pilot election tomorrow. The system generates a ballot-tracking code that voters can use to verify that their ballot is included in the results. https://elections.wi.gov/…