Democracy Counts!, Inc.

Election fraud in America has been a taboo subject for decades. Most American elections are not tampered with, for the simple reason that gerrymandering has made it unnecessary - whoever wins the nomination in more than 80 percent of districts almost always wins the general election, even if they were nominated by five or ten percent of the party's voters.

But our local election systems are so insecure that it stretches credulity to think that in a tight, high-stakes election, that the party in control of the apparatus won't put their thumb on the scale.

Paperless touchscreen machines are especially suspect: Researchers have identified extraordinary correlations between the use of touchscreen machines and unusually large winning margins that always benefit just one candidate or party, while the margins in areas using other types of machines in the same election show normal and irregular margins.

Does this matter? Yes. Suspect elections stimulate distrust, cynicism, and disengagement from the responsibilities of citizenship.

Democracy Counts!, a nonprofit tech company, has developed an election audit system that citizens can use to audit their local election machinery. Our lead app, Actual Vote, is in both app stores and has been used across the country since 2020.

The audit system is absolutely neutral and impartial. It can be deployed by nonpartisan organizations, electoral authorities, independent observer missions, campaigns of any party, and activists of any persuasion.

Democracy Counts was founded in 2016. We are broadening our mission this year by launching a new movement, the Middle Majority Movement. The MMM will empower disenfranchised majorities to exercise their latent ability to outvote the activated bases of the two parties and elect candidates who represent the majority, rather than the fringe minority. We are recruiting people who want to get in on the ground floor of a movement that will transform American politics and government, and restore majority representation to our republic.