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ElectionGuard is a set of open source software components that can be used to create and publish end to end verifiable elections as well create a publishable artifact for ballot comparison audits.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 3 stories, 6 comments · first 2020-02-21 · latest 2022-11-08

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  1. …e-voting schemes, for example you can do some cool stuff with homomorphic encryption like https://github.com/microsoft/electionguard/ . But there is something to be said for having a tallying algorithm like "count the pieces of paper" that…
  2. …layers should be interdependent to ensure the integrity of the process. I found this a while ago https://github.com/microsoft/electionguard , this seems like a good step forward to improve transparency in the process and would allow…
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    ElectionGuard
    story by known · 2021-02-06 · 0 comments
  4. …their vote was counted accurately. Microsoft has a project that seems to work in this direction: https://github.com/microsoft/electionguard
  5. …PK crypto. Microsoft's ElectionGuard is an actual cutting edge implementation of how to do it well: https://github.com/microsoft/electionguard
  6. As you should, when these systems are closed sourced. Would you trust an open source system, though? https://github.com/microsoft/electionguard
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    ElectionGuard open-source homomorphic encrypted end-to-end verifiable voting
    story by em3rgent0rdr · 2020-08-17 · 0 comments
  8. Here's the relevant public meta-repository: https://github.com/microsoft/electionguard .
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    ElectionGuard: Open-source SDK for secure and verifiable voting machines
    story by speps · 2020-02-21 · 0 comments