"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
- Henry David Thoreau

Lori J. Steele

Chief Executive Officer

"The power of an individual who believes that he or she can make a difference has been proven time and time again throughout history. With the realization of Everyone Counts' mission to ensure every eligible voter in every democracy in the world is able to securely, privately and independently cast her ballot – and know that ballot has been reliably counted – yet to be imagined and great things can begin to happen in the world."

Lori Steele is Chief Executive Officer of Everyone Counts, Inc., a for-profit company working to ensures that every person in every democracy has access to a secure ballot, reliably counted. In alliance with government customers, NGOs and advocacy groups throughout the world, Lori is driven to provide Universal Access to all voters.  A former investment advisor with a specialty in analyzing technology and telecom, Lori co-managed more than half a billion dollars for private wealth clients for nearly 20 years.  In addition, she has committed time and expertise to community organizations, with15 years as a Director of the Greater San Diego Boys and Girls Clubs, as a founding partner with San Diego Social Venture Partners and through work other San Diego organizations over the past decade including Voices for Children, the Door of Hope and Excellence and Justice in Education.

Lori was compelled to combine her expertise in business with her passion for community when it became apparent after the 2000 election in the U.S. and through dozens of examples that followed throughout the world that state of the art technology - and therefore fully established election science - had not yet been brought to governments for elections.  So Lori founded Everyone Counts, Inc.  She brought together a team of internationally recognized election and computer security experts to bring elections to and beyond the standards required for most secure commerce, government and business processes – but not yet integrated into election systems – arguably one of the most important processes in our world.  Today Everyone Counts is the world leader in providing transparent and accessible elections to voters through governments worldwide.

Lori’s experience in promoting fair elections and improving voting methods and technologies ranges across the globe over the past six years. She has participated in the World Forum on e-Democracy in Paris, France, was a panelist at the United Nation’s ITU (International Telecommunications Union) World 2003 Forum on Technology and Telecommunications in Geneva, Switzerland, and was an invited member of the Centre of Excellence’s International Advisory Council. She served as an adviser and City Council appointee on San Diego’s Elections Task Force. San Diego is America’s seventh-largest city.

Lori and her team have participated in the development of technical standards for Internet voting and elections in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia.  She has served as a panelist, advisor and participant in forums on election accessibility and integrity held by Pew Charitable Trusts, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, the U.S.-based National Association for Secretaries of State (NASS) and the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED), the Association of Electoral Administrators in the UK, and the Association of European Election Officials, each of whom work to ensure transparent, secure, and accessible elections for governments throughout the world.  Lori lives in Encinitas, California.