from NBC New York
Microsoft announced an ambitious
effort it says will make voting secure, verifiable and subject to
reliable audits. Two of the three top U.S elections vendors have
expressed interest in potentially incorporating the open-source software
into their proprietary voting systems.
The
software kit is being developed with Galois, an Oregon-based company
separately creating a secure voting system prototype under contract with
the Pentagon's advanced research agency, DARPA.
Dubbed
"ElectionGuard," the Microsoft kit will be available this summer, the
company says, with early prototypes ready to pilot for next year's
general elections. CEO Satya Nadella announced the initiative Monday at a
developer's conference in Seattle.
Nadella
said the project's software, provided free of charge as part of
Microsoft's Defending Democracy Program, would help "modernize all of
the election infrastructure everywhere in the world." Microsoft also
announced a cut-rate Office 365 application suite for political parties
and campaigns for what it charges nonprofits. Both Microsoft and Google
provide anti-phishing email support for campaigns...
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