What could possibly go wrong with this ? Microsoft and Columbia University auditing the elections The next thing you know, you'll be able to vote using your phone.


Tech giant Microsoft is taking a step into the world of election security, offering a new open-source software called “ElectionGuard,” which it claims is an “end-to-end” voting verification system to “modernize” elections.

AP News reports that Microsoft is entering the world of election security with the introduction of new open-source software called “ElectionGuard.” The name of the new software seems quite close to Microsoft’s partner NewsGuard, the browser extension bundled with the Microsoft Edge mobile browser that purports to be the arbiter of reliability in media. In practice, NewsGuard has repeatedly verified hoax Russian election tampering stories as true while blacklisting multiple conservative news websites as “fake news.”

Now, Microsoft is offering to step in to make voting more secure and transparent, according to the company. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in an announcement on Monday at a Seattle developer’s conference that the software would help to “modernize all of the election infrastructure everywhere in the world.”

Currently, the market for election equipment in the U.S. is controlled by three little-known companies: Election Systems & Software of Omaha, Nebraska; Dominion Voting Systems of Denver and Hart InterCivic of Austin, Texas. These companies have been criticized for their lack of transparency and security issues in the past. So far, ES&S and Hart InterCivic have expressed interest in working Microsoft and its ElectionGuard software.

Microsoft plans to provide the ElectionGuard development kit to interested parties for free as part of the company’s Defending Democracy Program. Microsoft’s Office 365 application suite will also be offered to political parties and campaigns at a 75 percent discount as part of this initiative.

Josh Benaloh, a senior cryptographer at Microsoft Research and a key contributor to the ElectionGuard project, stated that ElectionGuard is meant to work as a standalone project but can be implemented in existing election systems also. Benaloh stated: “It can be used with a ballot-marking device. It can be used with an optical scanner, on hand-marked paper ballots.”

ElectionGuard is designed to provide an “end-to-end” voting verification system via two methods. Firstly, ElectionGuard allows voters to confirm that their votes have been accurately recorded. Secondly, ElectionGuard uses a unique coded tracker to register an encrypted version of an individual’s vote while keeping the choice of the ballot a secret, this ensures that votes are accurately counted.

Edgardo Cortés, a former Virginia elections commissioner now with New York University’s Brennan Center, commented on ElectionGuard stating: “I think it’ll take a while to catch on and see how beneficial (ElectionGuard) ends up being, but I think it certainly does have a great deal of potential.” Microsoft will be partnering with Columbia University to audit the pilot ElectionGuard pilot program.

Microsoft is not a stranger to the Federal government. Christopher C. Kerbs, who served as the Director for Cybersecurity Policy on Microsoft’s U.S. Government Affairs team, was appointed as the first director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) by President Trump in June, 2018.


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Won't count "Hate" votes. You know, ones for Republicans.

No f'ing way! I'll never trust a bunch of Leftists to be honest in anything they do.

I don't trust the current electronic voting systems.

Weird....Every time I pull the lever for Trump, this pops up on my screen...

Let’s see, verifies Russian voting, identifies conservative fake news... ummm. Not just no but hail no! Lefty assholes must think everyone is a stupid as their customer base.

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
What could possibly go wrong with this ? Microsoft and Columbia University auditing the elections

Totally agree, and there is not a tech company nor university that I trust to do this. Google? Apple? Facebook? Twitter? Yale? Harvard? Florida State? University of Utah?
Bwaaaaaaaaahahaha. We need to go back to paper, hanging chads and all.

Windows 10. Any other questions?

Vista, Win 2000....Dos 4.1

yeah, anything Minishaft touches will turn to shit

Trump will win again by a landslide in 2020 and the democraps will claim that the software was hacked by aliens. God Bless

Results are "guaranteed"

BSOD
(blue screen of death)

This a Obama stated leftist wet dream. As said Microsoft has a reputation for alpha testing software with a paying public. I can only imagine the level of arousal going on at MicroSquish over the possible taxpayer funded windfall they’d be looking at. And that’s not including the money they’ll make from selling the data.

Why over complicate it? Simple solution.



One vote per person and no ID, no vote. Presto chango, problem solved. But of course we simply can't apply common sense to this issue can we.

go back to paper ballots

voter ID required

Well if there's one thing Microsoft is known for, it's bug-free and secure software.

This will do the opposite of what they claim to convince us to accept it.

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Originally posted by bobtheelf:
Well if there's one thing Microsoft is known for, it's bug-free and secure software.

Yep I agree we should use Android, iOS, OSx, or Linux. They're completely bug free and never been hacked. EVER! I also think we should use USC for the co-operating college. They're completely non partisan! Anyone think that electronic ballots are a bad idea?

Just stick with paper. Photo ID, draw a giant X in the box by the picture of your candidate. K.I.S.S.

One algorithm to rule them all
One algorithm to find them
One algorithm to count them all
And in the tally bind them.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
--Joseph Stalin