How Wanna Vote Works
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Wanna Vote is an app that can detect constitutional violations of the right to vote.
Each eligible voter has a constitutional right for their vote to be counted correctly.
Unfortunately, vote counting in the US is vulnerable to error, jeopardizing this constitutional right
Wanna Vote makes it possible to catch such errors in vote counting.
To see how this works, let’s imagine it’s election day in a fictional Crow County.
Imagine 10 Crow County voters—6 who prefer Candidate A and 4 who prefer Candidate B:
In a free and fair election, the official vote count will correctly reflect the contributions of each of these voters:
But this election in Crow County wasn’t free and fair. The contributions of two of our ten voters weren’t correctly captured!
These errors in vote counting throw the official results off. Without an independent audit, voters won’t realize this!
Wanna Vote is a free app from America Counts (currently in under development) designed for exactly this situation.
With the Wanna Vote app, trusted Canvassers approach eligible voters and give them the opportunity to safely and securely record how they did vote, or would have voted if they had not been prevented from doing so. The information is encrypted on our secure servers.
In this way, Wanna Vote is a parallel vote system that can help double-check the official results.
Wanna Vote has no direct impact on the official vote counting.
Say we canvass our 10 Crow County voters with Wanna Vote and find this:
Imagine for a moment that these 10 voters are the only eligible voters in the Crow County. Then our Wanna Vote Results suggest that there might errors in the vote counting!
Doing a Wanna Vote audit of all of Crow County works the same basic way, just with bigger numbers. Such an audit is most effective when done by an organized audit committee.
Without this kind of independent audit of the vote counting, we can’t really be 100% sure that the official results are free from errors in vote counting!
If a Wanna Vote audit of this election in Crow County does turn up evidence of errors in vote counting, that evidence can now be brought to the courts by candidates, the media, and law enforcement to mount legal challenges to correct the official record.
This is how Wanna Vote makes it possible to catch errors in the vote counting.
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