Actual Vote

Democracy Counts

About this app

DISCLAIMER: Actual Vote is NOT affiliated with, authorized by, or funded by any government entity. America Counts and Democracy Counts, Inc. are independent non-profit organizations, not government agencies. This app does not generate, modify, or officially report any vote data.

OFFICIAL SOURCES FOR ELECTION INFORMATION: All election information referenced in this app comes from official government sources. (1) Poll tapes are public records printed by vote-tabulating machines and posted by local election officials at voting precincts. (2) Official vote totals are published by each state's chief election authority (Secretary of State or State Board of Elections). A complete official directory of every state and territory election office is maintained by the U.S. government at [https://www.usa.gov/state-election-office](https://www.usa.gov/state-election-office) and by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission at [https://www.eac.gov/voters/register-and-vote-in-your-state](https://www.eac.gov/voters/register-and-vote-in-your-state). Voters can compare recordings made with Actual Vote against these official sources.

Actual Vote lets you make video recordings of election poll tapes — the long strips of paper printed by tabulating machines that contain publicly viewable government information like precinct names and vote totals. Actual Vote does not create or alter this information; it simply helps citizens record documents that election officials have already posted in public view.

How it works:

Sign in and select your state.
Access a publicly posted poll tape at your local voting precinct.
Use the app to record a video of the poll tape from top to bottom.
Your recording is automatically uploaded, reviewed by our team, and — once approved — published on https://av.democracycounts.org.
Manage, play back, and keep track of all your recordings in the app.

Key features:

Record poll tape videos directly from the app with camera, audio, and location tagging
Automatic upload to America Counts for expert review
Manage and review your recordings in "My Recordings"
Save a backup copy to your device's photo library
State-specific guidance to help you get started

About us:
Actual Vote is made by America Counts, an initiative of Democracy Counts, Inc. — a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan election transparency organization. We are not a government entity and are not affiliated with or funded by any government agency. We do not produce official election results; we help the public document and verify information that government election officials have already made public.

Legal & privacy:

Privacy Policy: https://www.americacounts.us/privacy-policy/
User Agreement: https://www.americacounts.us/actual-vote/user-agreement/
Terms & Conditions: https://av.democracycounts.org/TermsAndConditions
Learn more about Actual Vote at https://www.americacounts.us/start-here/
and legality at https://www.americacounts.us/start-here/why-trustworthy/#is-it-legal
Delete your account: https://www.americacounts.us/delete-actual-vote-user-account/

Ratings and reviews

Left a review, but it somehow disappeared 🤨. This works up until it's time to record video, but I get a video processing error after tapping ✔️ to upload. I have 8 video clips that's sitting in limbo. I'm not sure if it can be seen on the developers end, or whoever is suppose to be collecting the videos. But, from my end it shows 8 clips just sitting there w/the upload symbol, which u can't click bc the retry error msg is in front. Each time I hit retry, everything disappears, and repeat.

Americans can now crowdsource election audit data that is good enough to trust when the data is consistent with the official results, and good enough to take to court when the data does not agree with official results. In exchange for a few minutes of training in how to video a poll tape, and then about 15 minutes actually shooting the videos, you can verify that votes are being reported accurately. No petition or street demonstration can accomplish this.

What’s new

6.2.5 release includes:
- Updated app icon
6.2.3 release includes:
- Remove unneeded permissions on reading photos/media
- Remove embedded pages (use links instead), remove dead code and clean up warnings
- Update pipelines to snap to specific workloads (resolve build failure on IOS)
- Redoing the "Things To Know" page & implementing several UI improvements