Security News > 2020 > February > Microsoft Trials Election Security Solution in Wisconsin

Microsoft representatives are in Fulton, Wisconsin, on Tuesday to conduct the first real-world trials for ElectionGuard, the company's open source election security solution.

Made available last year to election officials and technology suppliers to incorporate into voting systems, ElectionGuard was also included in Microsoft's bug bounty program in October 2019, with the company willing to pay up to $15,000 for security bugs.

Now, Microsoft is taking deployment of its election protection offerings one step further with the trialing of ElectionGuard in Fulton, where voters on Tuesday cast ballots in a primary election for Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates.

"Tomorrow's pilot gives us the first chance to see ElectionGuard in action in a real election, to assess its performance and observe voter reaction. We hope to learn from this so we can continue to work with election officials in Wisconsin and other states - and with technology partners such as VotingWorks - to improve ElectionGuard," Microsoft said on Monday.

The tech giant also revealed that, over the past months, it worked closely with the Wisconsin Election Commission and with VotingWorks to test the system and voting machines for pilot use and to train polling place workers.

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