Press Kit

This page collects the materials journalists and media most often need: approved boilerplate, logos, leadership bios, and a quick-reference fact sheet. Everything here is cleared for publication. For interviews, additional materials, or to be connected with a volunteer, see Media contact below.

Boilerplate

Copy-and-paste descriptions of America Counts, cleared for publication at any length.

One sentence. America Counts is a non-partisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit that lets Americans independently audit how votes are reported, using a free smartphone app to record poll tapes and compare them against official results.

Short (≈50 words). America Counts is a non-partisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit building the infrastructure for independent, people-powered election auditing. Through its Actual Vote system, volunteers use a free app to video-record poll tapes — the printed totals posted at polling places — and the organization compares them to official results, publishing every finding in full.

Long (≈100 words). America Counts is a non-partisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit, a project of Democracy Counts, Inc., which has been developing election-audit technology since 2016. Its Actual Vote system enables anyone with a smartphone to independently audit vote reporting: volunteers video-record poll tapes — the paper strips that tabulating machines print at the close of polls, showing local vote totals — and America Counts compares those totals against officially reported results using batch-comparison auditing, a peer-reviewed technique. All recordings are publicly archived, all findings are published in full, and the entire methodology is documented so that anyone can independently verify the work. The system is built to be non-partisan by design: it produces honest evidence regardless of who uses it.

Logos and wordmark

Approved logo files for publication. Please don’t recolor, stretch, or alter the mark; maintain clear space equal to the height of the “A” on all sides.

Leadership

Dan Wolf — Founder & CEO. Dan founded Democracy Counts, Inc. and has worked on election-audit technology and methodology since 2016, including early international election-observation work. He leads the organization’s strategy and its work to make independent auditing a routine part of American elections.

Jason Flatley — Chief Technology Officer. Jason leads the engineering behind Actual Vote — the app, the data pipeline that turns raw recordings into verified published comparisons, and the analysis methodology. He oversees the technical work that makes independent election auditing credible and reproducible.

Fact sheet

Organization

America Counts, a project of Democracy Counts, Inc. (non-partisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 81-2822233)

Founded

Democracy Counts, Inc. has been developing election-audit technology since 2016

Leadership

Dan Wolf (Founder & CEO), Jason Flatley (CTO)

What it does

Enables anyone to independently audit vote reporting by recording poll tapes and comparing them to official results

Methodology

Batch-comparison auditing — a peer-reviewed technique aligned with guidance from the Election Assistance Commission, Verified Voting, and the Brennan Center for Justice

Track record

Across 13 county-level election audits in Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina, volunteers have independently audited 1,037,636 individual votes. Across 7,034 tape-to-official comparisons, every initial non-match that ever arose was either an AC process error or was explained by a mechanism the county itself identified, and zero true discrepancies have ever existed.

Data & transparency

All poll-tape recordings are publicly archived at av.democracycounts.org; all findings are published at americacounts.us/actual-vote/vote-reporting-audits. Both the recordings and the official results they’re compared against are public information.

Funding

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Approved key statistics

These figures are current and cleared for publication. They are generated automatically from our published reports, so this list is always the latest cumulative total.

Individual votes independently audited

1,037,636

Tape-to-official comparisons

7,034

County-level election audits

13, across 3 states (Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina)

True discrepancies that ever existed

0 — every initial non-match that ever arose was either an AC process error or was explained by a mechanism the county itself identified; zero true discrepancies have ever existed

Media contact

For press inquiries, interviews, downloadable assets, or to be connected with a volunteer who will speak on the record:

Email: info@democracycounts.org

How to verify our claims

We designed Actual Vote to be independently verifiable. You can watch the poll-tape recordings yourself, review the methodology, and contact the election officials and volunteers in counties where we’ve operated. See the journalists’ guide for the full walkthrough.