Cybersecurity
Microsoft Offers Election Software That Will Flag Hack Attempts
ElectionGuard will track votes and show whether vote tampering has occurred but won’t be widely used by 2020 presidential race
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Microsoft Corp. will offer free software tools to protect elections and help voters, monitors and agencies make sure votes are counted properly.
The software company said the tools will make it harder to hack elections in the first place, but if one is, it will be clear that results have been altered or tampered with. Microsoft said the tools will probably be tested in some U.S. elections as soon as this year but will not be able to be widely deployed for the U.S. presidential election in 2020.