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A seven-step walkthrough of how you can use our Actual Vote app to help us boost election transparency.
Whether you're brand new to election auditing with our Actual Vote app or just want a refresher, this is the path to follow. Each page builds on the last, but you can also jump to whichever one matters to you right now.
Ready to go already? Get the app, see what's possible in your state, or jump to Step 4: Make Your Plan and Get Ready.
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Step 1
How Actual Vote Works
The Actual Vote app in plain terms — voting machines, poll tapes, and how a recording becomes an audit.
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Step 2
Why You Should Care
Five real situations where vote-reporting problems went unresolved — and how Actual Vote could have made the difference.
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Step 3
The Benefits of Actual Vote
What participating in Actual Vote produces — for transparency, for accuracy, and for social well-being.
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Step 4
Make Your Plan and Get Ready
Choose how you’ll get poll tapes, then get the app, get trained, and line up a team — everything to do before election day.
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Step 5
What Happens After You Record
The path your recordings take from upload to published findings, with a concrete walkthrough of an analysis.
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Step 6
Why Actual Vote Is Trustworthy
Five reasons the methodology is structurally sound, plus the real-world results that bear it out.
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Step 7
Non-Partisan Election Advocacy
What non-partisanship means in practice, how we hold ourselves to it, and how to spot the difference between genuine and performative versions.
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