"ElectionGuard is a way of checking election results are accurate, and that votes have not been altered, suppressed or tampered with in any way. Individual voters can see that their vote has been accurately recorded, and their choice has been correctly added to the final tally. Anyone who wishes to monitor the election can check all votes have been correctly tallied to produce an accurate and fair result."

        — From What is ElectionGuard?

Although ElectionGuard is designed to be an industrial-strength solution to help secure traditional civic elections, it can also be used for "low stakes" forms of polling as well.

Consider ElectionGuard anywhere the security and privacy properties provided by homomorphic tallying could be beneficial.

This project is an open source Rust implementation of ElectionGuard 2.0, intended to serve as a reference or as production software for those wishing to incorporate ElectionGuard into their systems.

The Rust Language was chosen for this reference implementation due to its:

• Innovative memory safety guarantees and excellent security and reliability track record
• Strong, static, well-defined, type system
• Runtime performance
• Cross platform compatibility and ability to integrate with external code defined in C
• Clean and consistent design

This is not the only implementation of ElectionGuard, some others are listed below.

• BUILDING How to build and run the code in this repository 👈 *** Start here ***
• SECURITY Reporting security issues
• SUPPORT How to engage with developers and community
• CODE_OF_CONDUCT We are committed to providing a welcoming and inspiring community for all
• README You're reading me now

• Table of Contents Top level project documentation. 👈 Bookmark this after you get it built.

Brought to you by:

• Microsoft Research Lab – Redmond
  • Special Projects
    • Security and Cryptography group

• ... with help and contrbutions from many others.

Videos

• Tutorial, Research talk, and Q&A:
  • Tutorial: ElectionGuard: Enabling voters to verify election integrity
    • Josh Benaloh, Senior Principal Cryptographer, Microsoft Research Redmond
  • Research talk: ElectionGuard: Implementations and future directions
    • Dan S. Wallach, Professor, Rice University
  • Microsoft Research Summit 2021 - The Future of Privacy & Security - event page
  • Direct link to video on YouTube

ElectionGuard website:

• electionguard.vote

This section is a list of pointers to independent projects which those who are interested in ElectionGuard and related technologies may find interesting. It is not intended to be comprehensive or authoritative. Inclusion here should not be interpreted as meaningful in any way, and in particular not as an endorsement of any kind. Independent projects are independent.

This list is known to be incomplete. Suggestions are welcome.

• ElectionGuard 2.0 Reference Implementation in Rust This project
• ElectionGuard 2.0 in Kotlin from Dan Wallach of Rice University

• ElectionGuard 1.x in Python docs from Microsoft
• ElectionGuard 1.x API in C from Microsoft [No longer maintained]
• ElectionGuard 1.x API in C# from Microsoft [No longer maintained]
• ElectionGuard 1.x SDK Reference Verifier from Microsoft

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