For more than two decades, we’ve faced forces willing – even eager – to subvert the democratic process in service of their electoral goals.

In addition to trying to make voting harder, these anti-democratic forces have taken new aim at everything that happens once polls have closed. They have pushed process changes, defunded election administration, and are trying to stack personnel with anti-democracy actors who can use their power nefariously, exerting influence over the counting and certification processes.

To date, we’ve lacked a central repository of the information and infrastructure needed to fight on this new front.

Informing Democracy’s mission is to provide comprehensive research and information about everything that happens in election administration after votes are cast — how votes are counted, how elections are certified, and the personnel involved in this work.

Only by building a complete and cohesive understanding of the process, practice, and personnel will we be able to identify vulnerabilities and attempts to subvert our elections – and support corrective action.

More about Informing Democracy

Informing Democracy refers jointly to the work of our 501c3 and 501c4 organizations, which share a common mission and vision to shed light on the vote counting and certification processes.

Informing Democracy is a 501(c)(4) organization advocating for a system that protects the vote counting and election certification processes. We do that work alongside our sister organization, Informing Democracy Education Fund, a 501(c)(3) research organization, which is dedicated to building an authoritative understanding of how votes are counted and elections are certified down to the local level. Together, we work to ensure the broader pro-voter, pro-democracy movement has the information it needs to ensure no post-vote process is subverted by bad actors.