For context, Democracy Counts and Citizens Audit of Broward are just getting started. The groups are not well-known. Nonprofit organizations, voters and political parties may have a natural resistance to the effort to create a parallel vote count, or the specific way Democracy Counts seeks to do it. However, they have no such resistance to using Actual Vote to preserve polling tapes.
This is what the founder and director of Scrutineers.org thinks about the potential the Actual Vote app affords Americans. Scrutineers.org is an online community where voter protection, election security and transparency advocates meet. She made her remarks via email as police were quelling the riot at our nation's Capitol.
"We have a lot of work to rebuild voter confidence in our election systems," says Emily Levy. "That work will necessarily require complete transparency of our voting and vote-counting processes from this day forward. We can no longer permit the secret processes or corporate claims of proprietary rights over the mechanisms of our democracy that are partly responsible for the chaos following this year's elections."
Carroll Robinson agrees. He is a Texas attorney and Democracy Counts board member.
He says, in an email as the MAGA coup attempt unfolded, "We need organizations like Democracy Counts because we need people dedicated to the long-term protection of democracy by protecting our right to vote and the integrity of our election system by using common sense innovation."
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