Free & Fair

11/18/2020

Free & Fair leadership co-signed two letters this week that focused on rebutting disinformation about election fraud running rampant on social media. For more information, see news coverage in the NY Times, Washington Post, NPR, and elsewhere, and the following links.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/business/election-security-letter-trump.html

https://twitter.com/CISAKrebs/status/1328741106624901120?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarriHursti/status/1328472844582461441?s=20

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/elections-are-partisan-affairs-election-security-isnt

“ICYMI: On allegations that election systems were manipulated, 59 election security experts all agree, "in every case of which we are aware, these claims either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent." https://t.co/Oj6NciYruD”

03/17/2020

Dr. Joey Dodds gave the talk “Trustworthy Elections” at ENIGMA 2020.

Joey’s presentation focused on the two main techniques that we focus on to make elections more trustworthy: Risk-Limiting Audits and End-to-End Verifiability.

Dr. Joey Dodds gave the talk "Trustworthy Elections" at ENIGMA 2020. Joey's presentation focused on the two main techniques that the community has been focusing on to make elections more trustworthy: Risk-Limiting Audits (RLA) and End-to-End Verifiability (E2E-V).

02/18/2020

It is exciting to see being used in the wild for the first time!

Residents in Fulton, Wisconsin will elect representatives for the Wisconsin Supreme Court via voting machines running Microsoft's ElectionGuard voting software.

09/25/2019

Congrats to the whole Galois, Inc. and Free & Fair team, especially Joey Dodds, who led the project for us! Thank you to Microsoft for their leadership in defending democracy.

In May, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced ElectionGuard, a free open-source software development kit (SDK) from our Defending Democracy Program. ElectionGuard is accessible by design and will make voting more secure, verifiable and efficient anywhere it’s used in the United States or in democr...

09/05/2019

Do you have a love of democracy and a concern with the world’s elections infrastructure?

Then please consider coming to work with us! Free & Fair has around ten job openings at this time.

freeandfair.us/careers/

05/14/2019

Here is an excellent article about our work with Microsoft on the open source SDK from Joey Dodds.

Today, Microsoft announced our joint work on ElectionGuard and the upcoming release of the software development kit. This SDK will be freely available, and can be used to enable end-to-end verifiable (E2E-V) elections around the world. An E2E-V election uses cryptography to produce proofs that an el...

05/14/2019

Miles Parks at NPR has published an excellent story on our elections R&D work with Microsoft and DARPA.

The tech giant unveiled a software toolkit Monday that would allow voters to confirm that their votes were cast and counted and provide transparency for tabulation.

05/14/2019

Our work on and the announcement from Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, was covered on MSNBC recently.

A new study finds all of America’s electronic voting systems can be hacked. NBC’s Jacob Ward joins Stephanie Ruhle to discuss how vulnerable our system is and what’s being done about it ahead of 2020.

05/14/2019

Our work on with Microsoft was covered this week in GovTechNews this week. https://t.co/c2Qik14akh

Planned for release on GitHub this summer, a software development kit aims to supplement paper ballot systems to make them end-to-end verifiable. That could allow for voters to verify themselves that their vote was counted.

05/14/2019

Our Principled CEO & Chief Scientist Joseph Kiniry has been invited to speak at the DARPA ERI Summit in Detroit on Monday 15 July in the "National Challenges and Promising Research Responses" session. http://www.eri-summit.com/agenda-2019