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 […]
We recently had the privilege of speaking before the San Francisco Elections Commission on open source elections technology and what counties stand to gain from open software. Below, you’ll find our answers to the questions posed by the Commission. How long do you think it will be before an open source voting system is certified […]
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 […]
A whitepaper providing a technical summary of our PDF voting hack is now available: Modifying an Off-the-Shelf Wireless Router for PDF Ballot Tampering If you missed it, you can find our bird’s eye view breakdown of the process here: http://galois.com/blog/2014/11/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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