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Microsoft to roll out free software to guard the U.S. voting machines

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Microsoft to roll out free software to guard the U.S. voting machines

The system uses an encrypted tracking code to allow a voter to verify that his or her vote has been recorded and has not been tampered with, Microsoft said in a blog post.

The announcement came at an annual conference of current and former intelligence, defense and homeland security officials.

Edward Perez, an election security expert with the independent Open Source Election Technology Institute, said Microsoft’s move signals that voting systems, long a technology backwater, are finally receiving attention from the county’s leading technical minds.

Perez said that about 30 percent of America’s registered voters currently live in counties with voting systems that have no auditable paper trail, a situation that he and other election experts say poses an unacceptable risk.

An election security bill that could help counties install more security systems by providing $600 million to the states has passed the House but has been held up in the Senate by Republican leader Mitch McConnell.

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