Tom Burt, vice-président de Microsoft responsable de la sécurité et de la confiance des clients :
Today, at the Microsoft Build developer conference, CEO Satya Nadella announced ElectionGuard, a free open-source software development kit (SDK) from our Defending Democracy Program. ElectionGuard will make voting secure, more accessible, and more efficient anywhere it’s used in the United States or in democratic nations around the world. ElectionGuard, developed with the assistance of our partner Galois, will be available starting this summer to election officials and election technology suppliers who can incorporate the technology into voting systems. Among ElectionGuard’s many benefits, it will enable end-to-end verification of elections, open results to third-party organizations for secure validation, and allow individual voters to confirm their votes were correctly counted.
Un système qui permet de contrôler les élections d’un bout de la chaine à l’autre, d’impliquer le public dans la vérification des résultats, et d’assurer que tous les votes sont dument comptés ? Quelle innovation ! (Une fois encore : les systèmes de vote électronique ne posent pas de problèmes technologiques, qui ne sont pas insurmontables, mais civiques, qui sont fondamentaux.)