Protecting Election Integrity with ElectionGuard

Today, Microsoft announced our joint work on ElectionGuard and the upcoming release of the software development kit. This SDK will be freely available, and can be used to enable end-to-end verifiable (E2E-V) elections around the world. An E2E-V election uses cryptography to produce proofs that an election has been run correctly. In a properly implemented […]

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On the promises of technology for elections: Joe Kiniry speaks at the Voting and Elections Summit

Earlier this month, the Ninth Annual Voting and Elections Summit examined the most critical and persistent issues surrounding U.S. elections and voter participation. Joe Kiniry, Galois’ election systems expert, gave a talk on the promises of technology to increase the transparency and trustworthiness of elections. Dr. Kiniry discussed the trade-offs that election officials face when […]

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Hacking Internet Voting via Ballot Tampering

Dan Zimmerman and Joe Kiniry Election Day was this week.  If you took advantage of early voting, or you live overseas, you probably used a paper ballot you received in the mail a few weeks ago.  A digital alternative, being considered across the USA, is voting-by-email. To vote using email (Fig. 1), you download and […]

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