The Need For
Election Audits
Here's why we need election audits.
Elections have huge consequences for voters.
Candidates and their financial backers have much to gain from winning:
Power and influence
Favorable laws and policies
Money
So there’s a huge incentive for bad actors to try to alter the outcome of elections by cheating.
US elections might seem relatively straightforward.
The unfortunate reality is that every step in this process is highly vulnerable to errors and attack.
If an election isn’t independently audited, it’s impossible to know if there are errors in the official results.
The Electoral Integrity Project ranks 55 other democracies above the US in electoral integrity—we clearly don’t take elections seriously enough.
Source: “Electoral Integrity Worldwide” by the Electoral Integrity Project (2019)
We don’t have to tolerate this!
Independent people-powered election audits are the most powerful thing regular people can do to improve election transparency.
A people-powered election audit is an independent inspection of the vote counting and reporting after the polls close.
People-powered election audits are doable!
Our free apps Actual Vote and Wanna Vote are the solution.
