Everyone Counts, Pty Ltd (E1C) provides both legally binding Internet elections and Internet voting research pilot projects for governments, unions, political parties and private entities worldwide, specializing in transparent voting systems. E1C has proven the concept of Internet voting for early adopting governments and private organizations since 1997, having run some of the most technically advanced elections in the world as a provider to the United Kingdom office of the Deputy Prime Minister, as well as to elections officials in the United States, Canada, Australia and Spain. E1C has since run over 160 on-line ballots, many declaring several positions, all legally binding.
E1C's election services division works closely with elections providers to determine the unique needs of each particular election, pilot or mock election, with expertise in determining the human, technological and process issues that clients may face within each election. This service analyzes the entire voting process, including trials of different registration, voting and counting methods, systems integration and education in Internet security and electoral matters.
E1C's election systems division licenses eLect, the technology platform which enables experts and non-technical electoral staff, alike, to run large, complex Internet elections or simple research pilots. eLect is armed with a security system which makes it the most advanced system commercially available. Using encryption, Java applets and downloadable tools for election staff, the system - called Shared Trust Elections - far exceeds the security requirements of common e-banking-type systems. With Shared Trust Elections all voters can confirm their inclusion in the election via an electronic receipting system.
In addition, E1C provides data collection services for research projects which collect, manage and secure sensitive data.
E1C is an affiliate of the US National Association of Secretaries of State, a Framework Provider to the Government of the United Kingdom and partners with the University of Melbourne on research matters.
