Team

Dan has spent four decades at the intersection of law, civic technology, and election integrity. His work in elections began in 1984, when as a Harvard Law student he spent the summer in Nicaragua researching the country's electoral system; the report he produced was the world's first country-specific election observer's manual. In 2012 he was senior adviser to the International Election Observation Mission for the Taiwan presidential elections.

In between, he pursued doctoral work in political science at UC San Diego (ABD), was founding director of the TransBorder Institute at the University of San Diego, founded Terra Segura International to develop humanitarian landmine-clearing technology, and built two technology companies around mine and IED clearance. As CEO of a public company he became intimately acquainted with the rigors of SEC audits — and concluded that if the public interest in transparent finance justifies that level of oversight, the public interest in transparent elections justifies equal rigor.

He founded Democracy Counts in 2016 to act on that conviction. Its flagship initiative, America Counts, gives Americans the tools to independently audit their local election machinery in near-real time — across party lines, responsibly, and peacefully.

Jason brings analytical and engineering firepower that few civic initiatives can claim. He spent eight years as Director of Data Science at AIG, where he built and led risk analytics infrastructure at enterprise scale.

As CTO of Democracy Counts, he took the Actual Vote application from prototype to a mature, deployable platform used in elections across multiple states. He leads the data architecture, platform engineering, and analytical infrastructure that lets America Counts track and measure independent vote-reporting audits at scale.