When voters in Fulton, Wisconsin, arrived to cast their ballots in a local election Tuesday, the voting process looked a little different.
Rather than the usual paper ballots, voters made their selections on digital tablets, loaded them onto plastic cards outfitted with memory chips, and inserted them into a card reader that saved the votes to a computer and printed a paper copy of each ballot to be placed in a ballot box. Another unfamiliar feature of the day: A handful of Microsoft executives stood by to explain and answer questions about the technology underlying the new system, called ElectionGuard.
"But what it does do is it says: Even if it does , how can we make it pointless for them to do that?" Restoring voter trustMicrosoft's solution isn't only about securing elections against bad actors, it's also about restoring trust among voters. After casting their ballot, voters on Tuesday left the polling place with a code that would allow them to log into a portal the following day to confirm their vote had been counted.
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