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Free & Fair leadership co-signed two letters this week that focused on rebutting disinformation about election fraud running rampant on social media. For more information, see news coverage in the NY Times, Washington Post, NPR, and elsewhere, and the following links.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/business/election-security-letter-trump.html

https://twitter.com/CISAKrebs/status/1328741106624901120?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarriHursti/status/1328472844582461441?s=20

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/elections-are-partisan-affairs-election-security-isnt

Chris Krebs #Protect2020 on Twitter “ICYMI: On allegations that election systems were manipulated, 59 election security experts all agree, "in every case of which we are aware, these claims either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent." https://t.co/Oj6NciYruD”

Dr. Joey Dodds gave the talk “Trustworthy Elections” at ENIGMA 2020.

Joey’s presentation focused on the two main techniques that we focus on to make elections more trustworthy: Risk-Limiting Audits and End-to-End Verifiability.

Joey Dodds speaks at ENIGMA 2020 – Free & Fair Dr. Joey Dodds gave the talk "Trustworthy Elections" at ENIGMA 2020. Joey's presentation focused on the two main techniques that the community has been focusing on to make elections more trustworthy: Risk-Limiting Audits (RLA) and End-to-End Verifiability (E2E-V).

It is exciting to see being used in the wild for the first time!

Microsoft to deploy ElectionGuard voting software for the first time | ZDNet Residents in Fulton, Wisconsin will elect representatives for the Wisconsin Supreme Court via voting machines running Microsoft's ElectionGuard voting software.

Congrats to the whole Galois, Inc. and Free & Fair team, especially Joey Dodds, who led the project for us! Thank you to Microsoft for their leadership in defending democracy.

ElectionGuard available today to enable secure, verifiable voting - Microsoft on the Issues In May, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced ElectionGuard, a free open-source software development kit (SDK) from our Defending Democracy Program. ElectionGuard is accessible by design and will make voting more secure, verifiable and efficient anywhere it’s used in the United States or in democr...

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Here is an excellent article about our work with Microsoft on the open source SDK from Joey Dodds.

Protecting Election Integrity with ElectionGuard - Galois, Inc. Today, Microsoft announced our joint work on ElectionGuard and the upcoming release of the software development kit. This SDK will be freely available, and can be used to enable end-to-end verifiable (E2E-V) elections around the world. An E2E-V election uses cryptography to produce proofs that an el...

Miles Parks at NPR has published an excellent story on our elections R&D work with Microsoft and DARPA.

Ahead Of 2020, Microsoft Unveils Tool To Allow Voters To Track Their Ballots The tech giant unveiled a software toolkit Monday that would allow voters to confirm that their votes were cast and counted and provide transparency for tabulation.

Our work on and the announcement from Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, was covered on MSNBC recently.

How vulnerable is the U.S. voting system? A new study finds all of America’s electronic voting systems can be hacked. NBC’s Jacob Ward joins Stephanie Ruhle to discuss how vulnerable our system is and what’s being done about it ahead of 2020.

Our work on with Microsoft was covered this week in GovTechNews this week. https://t.co/c2Qik14akh

Microsoft, Galois to Release Open Source ‘ElectionGuard’ SDK Planned for release on GitHub this summer, a software development kit aims to supplement paper ballot systems to make them end-to-end verifiable. That could allow for voters to verify themselves that their vote was counted.

Our Principled CEO & Chief Scientist Joseph Kiniry has been invited to speak at the DARPA ERI Summit in Detroit on Monday 15 July in the "National Challenges and Promising Research Responses" session. http://www.eri-summit.com/agenda-2019