Volunteer for the I Count Corps to Restore Electoral Democracy

Calling citizen volunteers to hand count paper ballots in the precincts on election night, and, at your option, to receive training for election recounts, audits, and citizen exit polls as well. 

Please sign up below -- and thank you for volunteering to uphold our electoral democracy.
Our present computerized, privatized electoral system is antithetical to democracy.

Democratric elections must be fully transparent to public observation and subject to rigorous verification to assure that all ballots are honestly and accurately counted as cast.
Computerized counting of votes in secret denies citizens the right to observe and confirm that the vote count is honest or accurate.

Election officials declare election results while withholding the actual votes, placing the proprietary interests of e-voting vendors above the public's vital interest in legitimately elected government.
Vendors and election officials then tell the public we must accept election results on trust. Thus are the sovereign people rendered subservient to corporations and the government.

Democracy must never be outsourced to private interests, nor elections conducted on a basis of blind trust.

The I Count Corps will bring together citizen volunteers and provide online and in-person training to hand-count the ballots in the precincts on Election Night as soon as the polls close.

(See project details below)

Note: Use your tab key to move between the form fields NOT THE ENTER KEY

E-mail Address: *Required
First name: *Required
Last name: *Required
Address: (Very helpful, but optional)
Telephone: (Very helpful, but optional)
Please use xxx-xxx-xxxx format for the telephone number
County: * Required ( or equivalent electoral jurisdiction: township, parrish, borough, etc.)
State: * Required
Zipcode: *5 digit Zip Code is Required (Needed to correlate with precincts) -- Zip Code Plus 4 is helpful and please include it if you know yours.
 
 
If you would like to volunteer but don't have e-mail access, please phone in your contact information to 510 275 5723 .

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By participating in the "I Count" Corps, you agree that your contact information will be shared with other participating counters in your local district, and with the administrative staff of EDA who handle the logistics.

What we must do to restore the sovereign power of the people:

The integrity of elections can only be ensured by multipartisan citizen oversight. It is the citizens' right and obligation to exercise vigilance over the entire electoral process.

Ballots must be counted in full public view on Election Night, in the precincts where they are cast, with tallies recorded and publicly posted before the ballots leave the precinct and before any reputed results are published elsewhere.

Public election officials have sided with the vendors to exclude we the people from our own elections.  We must remedy this unacceptable state by taking the counting of the votes into our own hands.


 Counting the federal ballots in the precincts on election night:

Because our highest priority must be assuring the legitimacy of the federal government, the immediate concern of the I Count project is to hand-count ballots for federal office. This means that for any electoral jurisdiction, there will be at most 3 contests to count: President, Member of Congress, and in every third year, Senate. 

Practical experience in hand-counted paper ballot elections around the country establishes that this amount of hand-counting can be accomplished in 4 hours of your time on election night.

The same ballot-counting skills needed for election night counts are also applicable to election recounts and audits. The same teams trained for ballot counting can also be trained in citizen exit polling -- the only independent means for citizens to assess the validity of officially reported computerized vote counts. Volunteers in the I Count project can be involved in any or all of these


Training:

An example of training material currently available is the "We're Counting the Votes" kit online at http://electiondefensealliance.org/were_counting_the_votes_kit.

Although this manual is based on New Hampshire election law, election procedures  and hand-counting methods are the same or similar from state to state, and any variations can be incorporated into regional editions of the training kit.

You may also find the hand-counting procedures manual for election administrators of interest: http://electiondefensealliance.org/HCPB_election_admin_handbook.

We anticipate offering additional instructional material such as downloadable videos, as well as regional in-person training sessions. We will announce these training resources as they become available.

If you can assist in adapting training materials specific to your state or voting jurisdiction, please e-mail us at Info@ElectionDefenseAlliance with "I Count" in the subject line or phone us at 510 275 5723 .

 

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