Microsoft and Security Expert Make the Case for End-To-End Verifiability in Municipal Elections
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Neuvote has the most secure on-line voting system in the world, powered by Microsoft’s ElectionGuard and its cryptographic End-To-End Verifiable Voting system. Commented Matthew Heuman, Neuvote CEO and Founder, “ElectionGuard's E2E Verifiability makes elections transparent, secure and auditable”.
To make the case, we hosted a webcast on April 21st featuring a cybersecurity and online voting expert and Microsoft's Defending Democracy team to share critical information about the need for End-To-End Verifiability to secure online voting and in particular, online voting by Municipalities. The webcast also outlined how ElectionGuard’s cryptography works to achieve secure online voting.
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Featured on the webcast were: Dr. Aleks Essex, Associate Professor, Software Engineering, University of Western Ontario; and from Microsoft, Dr. Josh Benaloh Head of Research for ElectionGuard, RC Carter and David Leichtman from Microsoft’s Defending Democracy Initiative that is tasked with commercializing ElectionGuard.
Key Takeaways
· There is significant demand for and interest in moving away from the paper ballot to online voting to reduce costs and administration and to increase accessibility and convenience.
· But there is a need to preserve the integrity of the electronic vote and to assure voters that their votes are cast as intended, counted as cast and protected from tampering.
· End-to-End Verifiability through cryptography is the key to ensuring the security of on-line voting.
· Microsoft, as part of its Defending Democracy Initiative, developed ElectionGuard’s End-to-End Verifiability system to achieve on-line election integrity and security.
· Beward: Not all online voting vendors have true End-to-End Verifiability. According to the Microsoft team, the process has to be open, published with verification codes that match actual votes.
An Invitation
During the Q&A at the end of the webcast, participants were invited to contact the Microsoft team and/or Neuvote to answer any questions they may have about moving to and/or securing their on-line voting.
If you want to learn more about ElectionGuard and End-to-End Verifiability for elections, click here to view the webcast replay.