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Amid Worries About Election Security, Microsoft Unveils Voting Machine Software : NPR

In an effort to improve confidence in elections, Microsoft announced Monday that it is releasing an open-source software development kit called ElectionGuard that will use encryption techniques to let voters know when their vote is counted. It will also allow election officials and third parties to verify election results to make sure there was no interference with the results.

20th Century Constitutional Amendment. The Right to Vote cost $2.00 in Massachusetts; actual receipt shown here. Voting Rights, Civil Rights Acts

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Poll Tax: 20th Century Constitutional Amendment. The Right to Vote cost $2.00 in Massachusetts; actual receipt shown here. Voting Rights, Civil Rights Acts

By 1963 we were ready to exercise our voting rights. And so, in March, I went to the Town Hall of Wilbraham, Massachusetts, to register to vote. Whoa!

"First, Mr. Dailey, there is the little matter of the poll tax."

"What? In this bastion of pilgrim democracy, is a town official telling me there is such a thing as a poll tax?"

Peggy and I had voted years earlier in a number of states, including Virginia, the heart of the Confederacy.! (Virginia, it needs to be noted, had imposed a special federal registration requirement, not a poll tax, but an impediment to voters who did not pay the poll tax in the state's elections.)

Why Are Millions of Citizens Not Registered to Vote?

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Why Are Millions of Citizens Not Registered to Vote?

"Registration’s importance to the voting process and the large number of individuals who remain unregistered have spurred several major reforms intended to increase voter registration. Most notably, the federal government’s National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) requires that states allow eligible citizens to register to vote when completing other transactions at state motor vehicle and social services agencies, a provision commonly known as Motor Voter. Since enactment of the law, some states have expanded on this requirement by automating the Motor Voter process. Colorado upgraded its Motor Voter process in 2017, and Oregon became the first state to implement automatic voter registration in 2016, with at least six more planning to implement similar policies in the future. Other states offer Same Day Registration, which allows individuals to register and vote on Election Day, often right at their polling places."