Posted on 02/18/2020 7:51:42 AM PST by dayglored
ElectionGuard guards real-life election
Microsoft is in Fulton, Wisconsin, today to try its ElectionGuard electronic vote system in the primary election for the US state's Supreme Court candidates.
Tom Burt, Microsoft corporate veep for Customer Security and Trust, unleashed the news overnight, hopefully giving locals time to roll out the bunting before Microsoft turned up to wheel out the thing for its first attempt at an actual election.
The electronic vote system was demonstrated at the Aspen Security Forum back in July 2019 and is aimed at enabling an end-to-end verification of the voting process. The code and development kit were tossed onto GitHub the following September to allow voting machine manufacturers to build kit based on the system, and security researchers to poke at the code.
Up to $15,000 is up for grabs for anyone who finds a way for miscreants to work their vote-rigging magic.
For the Wisconsin pilot, VotingWorks, a nonprofit aimed at building a "delightful voting system", will be providing the gear, which will spit out a paper ballot as well as a ballot-tracking code that voters can use to ensure their ballot was tabulated correctly.
Unlike the app that famously caused chaos at the Iowa Democratic Party caucus thanks to some duff code, a very cautious approach is being taken with ElectionGuard. Only a "few hundred" votes are expected to be cast at the Fulton Town Office, and both Microsoft and VotingWorks will have staff on hand to assist confused voters stabbing at unresponsive screens.
And if this first pilot in a real election does go TITSUP*, the certified machines used in previous elections will provide backup.
"We anticipate many more pilots of ElectionGuard technology as we get it ready for prime time," said Burt.
Us? We'll be checking the box marked "Bork"... just before the screen turns blue. ®
* Total Inability To Sum Up Polling
Does it guard against Democrats finding boxes of votes in their trunk?
Elections should be run locally with
- traceable paper ballots
- voter ID required
- registrations end 1 week before election
- no absentee voting
- no early voting
- leave polling places open 24 hours
Anything else is an invitation to fraud
Computerized/internet voting in the hands of a large corporation is an absolute disaster waiting to happen.
Absolutely do not trust Microshaft with anything like this. They are as liberal as it gets and not shy about it. ITs the Fox in the hen house issue.
Microsoft’s Wxx OS, Cloud, OneDrive, Teams, Edge, Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Navision, PowerPoint...
“All your data are belonging to MS.”
Truly scary chit, to me. Any company that loves using MS’s “convenient” data handling apps listed above deserves what it will, someday, get.
Add permanent & UV purple ink thumbprints on sign-in sheets, votes counted by two parties, ballots controlled by two parties and held for 90 days.
Only objection I would have to that list is that Absentee should be allowed only for military and other federal employees on out of district orders vs not at all.
Piss off, Microsoft. Enemies of the Republic.
Technically it should because it requires both a digital trail and a printed ballot. So, if they do print out a thousand fake ballots, they’ll have to have transaction numbers to go with them.
My company recently switched from a "roll-our-own" mix of old-style open-source applications to Office 365 for mail, calendar, messaging, chat, online-storage, etc. It's been a royal PITA both for the users and for us in IT/Support. Things are broken every day, and the list is growing, not shrinking.
Just now, Microsoft is not one of my "They Get It Right" vendors.
I just wish they'd spend less time trying to fix the world's problems and doing social justice warring and virtue signalling, and more time getting their damned software correct.
Well, perhaps it guards against Democrats finding boxes of floppy disks in their trunk.
Or perhaps not.
if its windoz, it must be time for the divide by zero error.
paper is just fine - keep the high tech crap
Does it guard against Democrats finding boxes of votes in their trunk?
yes. the finding of ballot boxes floating in the water is being worked on as we speak
“My company recently switched from a “roll-our-own” mix of old-style open-source applications to Office 365 for mail...”
MS Office 365’s Outlook web front end is just awful. They took the (just OK) Outlook local front end and absolutely ruined it.
Coders are addicted to constantly changing things. They CANNOT leave well enough alone (it’s effectively a Coders’ Jobs Program).
Imagine if car dealership mechanics had their tool chests messed with by others very few months, overnight — tools changed, items rearranged, locks changed. They would be totally pissed off.
They don’t work like that. Voting systems have to have candidates manually entered at the time of the election. You could create an election with these systems that could be tater salad, and BBQ beans for governor and it doesn’t care.
Not with their terrible track record.
Purple ink on a finger. And how would deployed military vote?
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