#Microsoft teams track ballots up with full
The system will always produce paper backups, is encrypted in a special way to allow counting while preserving full voter security and privacy, and expands the ability to do post-election audits. The idea is to meld Hart's existing voting equipment with dramatically expanded software capabilities from ElectionGuard. On Thursday, Microsoft and Hart InterCivic, one of the three major voting machine vendors in the US, jointly announced a partnership to pilot the use of ElectionGuard in Hart’s Verity voting systems. The question, though, has been whether private voting machine makers-who compete with each other in a regulated market-would be willing to adopt a technology that any of their rivals can use too. Last year, Microsoft successfully piloted the software in a real-world election. It’s open source and designed to be incorporated into existing voting systems. The project, launched in 2019, offers what's known as "end-to-end verifiability," meaning that all vote data is encrypted and private, but there's still full transparency into how the votes were tallied and whether the determination of a winner is correct. In the ever-urgent quest to ensure United States elections are safe and secure, Microsoft’s ElectionGuard software has been a tantalizing development.
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