Actual Vote

Democracy Counts

About this app

The Actual Vote app doesn't represent a government entity. America Counts, the makers of this app, also are not a government entity. We are a non-profit non-partisan election transparency organization.

The Actual Vote app is designed to video-record the government information on election poll tapes. Election poll tapes are long strips of paper printed during the vote counting procedure by election tabulating machines. They contain government information like voting precinct names and tabulated vote totals. See https://av.democracycounts.org/polltape/4826 for an example of a video-recording of a poll tape.

There are many valid ways for users of the app to access poll tapes. See https://americacounts.us/make-your-actual-vote-plan/ for more.

When a user of the app has validly accessed a poll tape, it is generally legal for that user to video-record that poll tape, including the government information it contains, with the app. The government information on such a poll tape is considered to be public information. See https://americacounts.us/using-actual-vote-is-legal/ for more.

This is how the Actual Vote app works:
1. Users download the Actual Vote app on their mobile device
2. They they access poll tapes using one of the valid methods
3. They use the app to make video-recordings of those poll tapes, including the publicly-viewable government information they contain
4. The videos are automatically uploaded to us and reviewed by our experts. Any legitimate poll tape video with no inappropriate content is approved and displayed in public on av.democracycounts.org
5. Once election officials have released the relevant official election results, our experts compare the vote totals on the poll tape videos with those official results and report our findings. If they match, it's a boost for election transparency and accuracy. If we find a discrepancy, we follow up accordingly.

See America Counts's privacy policy at https://americacounts.us/privacy-policy/ for more on how the videos you submit with the Actual Vote app are used. Users of the Actual Vote app agree to this User Agreement: https://americacounts.us/actual-vote-user-agreement/. Users of av.democracycounts.org agree to the Terms and Conditions at https://av.democracycounts.org/TermsAndConditions.

Vote tabulation and poll tapes are managed by state boards of elections, and the vote totals on such poll tapes may be used by state boards of elections as a part of the official vote reporting process. You can find more information about state boards of elections by internet-searching for "[state] board of elections". For example, the North Carolina State Board of Elections site is https://www.ncsbe.gov/. For Florida, it's https://dos.fl.gov/elections. For Georgia it's https://sos.ga.gov/elections-division-georgia-secretary-states-office.

America Counts is an election audit initiative of Democracy Counts, Inc., a 501(c)(3) registered non-profit non-partisan corporation. Democracy Counts, Inc. does not represent a government entity. Actual Vote, America Counts, and Democracy Counts are not sponsored by or affiliated with any government agency, and we don't receive any funding from the government.

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

Major release for Actual Vote! This release includes:
- Full App rebuild using .Net Maui based on .Net 9.0 (stable)
- Updates to the latest libraries & frameworks
- Inclusion of asynchronous uploads feature
- Updated terms of service & user safety policies
- Info screen when launching the app to indicate NO affiliation with any government agencies