Microsoft offers software tools to secure elections


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 07 May 2019

FILE - In this March 18, 2014 file photo, voters cast their ballots in Hinsdale, Ill. Microsoft announced Monday, May 6, 2019, an ambitious effort to make voting secure, verifiable and reliably auditable with open-source software that top U.S elections vendors say they will explore incorporating into new and existing voting equipment. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Microsoft has announced an ambitious effort to make voting secure, verifiable and subject to reliable audits by registering ballots in encrypted form so they can be accurately and independently tracked long after they are cast. 

Two of the three top US elections vendors have expressed interest in potentially incorporating the open-source software into their voting systems. 

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