Microsoft makes its ElectionGuard software for voting systems open source

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Published onSeptember 27, 2019

published onSeptember 27, 2019

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Part ofMicrosoft’s Defending Democracy Programjust became officially an open-sourced development kit (SDK) that, ideally, will enable more election campaigns to secure their communications in the future as well as put up additional safeguards around voting methods.

In May, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that it would be rolling out ElectionGuard as free open-source solution, but earlier this week the project finally becamepublically available across the company’s GitHub repositories.

Here is what’s being gifted to developers:

While Defending Democracy is a program that is being offered both nationally and internationally, it appears that ElectionGuard is being pitched to US-based developers and “manufacturers of voting systems in the United States.”

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Kareem Anderson

Networking & Security Specialist

He is a journalist from the bay area, now living in Florida. He breaks down complex topics related to networking, Azure, cloud computing, and security

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