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It is exciting to see being used in the wild for the first time!

Microsoft to deploy ElectionGuard voting software for the first time | ZDNet Residents in Fulton, Wisconsin will elect representatives for the Wisconsin Supreme Court via voting machines running Microsoft's ElectionGuard voting software.

Congrats to the whole Galois, Inc. and Free & Fair team, especially Joey Dodds, who led the project for us! Thank you to Microsoft for their leadership in defending democracy.

ElectionGuard available today to enable secure, verifiable voting - Microsoft on the Issues In May, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced ElectionGuard, a free open-source software development kit (SDK) from our Defending Democracy Program. ElectionGuard is accessible by design and will make voting more secure, verifiable and efficient anywhere it’s used in the United States or in democr...

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Here is an excellent article about our work with Microsoft on the open source SDK from Joey Dodds.

Protecting Election Integrity with ElectionGuard - Galois, Inc. 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 el...

Miles Parks at NPR has published an excellent story on our elections R&D work with Microsoft and DARPA.

Ahead Of 2020, Microsoft Unveils Tool To Allow Voters To Track Their Ballots The tech giant unveiled a software toolkit Monday that would allow voters to confirm that their votes were cast and counted and provide transparency for tabulation.

Our work on and the announcement from Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, was covered on MSNBC recently.

How vulnerable is the U.S. voting system? A new study finds all of America’s electronic voting systems can be hacked. NBC’s Jacob Ward joins Stephanie Ruhle to discuss how vulnerable our system is and what’s being done about it ahead of 2020.