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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.

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Microsoft Defending Democracy Program: ElectionGuard

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ElectionGuard is an open source software development kit (SDK) that makes voting more secure, transparent and accessible. Announced at the Build developer conference, ElectionGuard enables end-to-end verification of elections as well as support the publication of results from ballot comparison audits. The ElectionGuard SDK leverages homomorphic encryption to ensure that votes recorded by electronic systems of any type remain encrypted, secure, and secret. Results can be published online or made available to third-party organizations for secure validation, and allow individual voters to confirm their votes were correctly counted.

❤️ Open-Source

This library and all linked ElectionGuard projects, are licensed under the MIT license. There is no fee for using ElectionGuard.

🚀 Getting Started

ElectionGuard is always improving. To keep up with the latest, check our official site on GitHub Pages and our roadmap. For those looking to get started, we recommend the following repositories.

Documentation

This repository is a living document to help everyone interact with ElectionGuard. The official ElectionGuard site is built using the /docs folder and mkdocs with mkdocs-material. Ensure you have the Python 3.8 or newer installed and run make to install the dependencies and start the site.

Python

An ElectionGuard Core implemented in Python which includes ballot encryption, decryption, key generation, and tallying.

📁 Source | 📦 Package | 📝 Documentation

C ++

An ElectionGuard Core implemented in C++ to support ballot encryption.

📁 Source | 📦 Package | 📝 Documentation

Web API

A Web API that wraps the Python package to perform ballot encryption, casting, spoiling, and tallying.

📁 Source | 🐳 Docker | 📄 Documentation

User Interface

Monorepo in React & Typescript consisting of an api client, components, and apps to demonstrate examples of user interface.

📁 Source | 📄 Documentation

🛡 Security Issues Reporting

We encourage the developer and security community to conduct research, report issues, and suggest improvements on this code base. However, unlike performance or feature bugs, please do not report security vulnerabilities in public Github comments. Each repository has a SECURITY file with instructions on responsibly reporting security vulnerabilities under Microsoft's CVD process.

🤝 Contributing

Help defend democracy and contribute to the project.

We welcome discussions on our discussions page, feel free to check in and ask your questions and drop your suggestions regarding the specifications over there.

❓ Questions

ElectionGuard would love for you to ask questions out in the open using Github Issues. If you really want to email the ElectionGuard team, reach out at [email protected].

🎉 Thanks!

A huge thank you to those who helped to contribute to this project so far, including:

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