Everyone Counts - Milestones

June 2007: Paul DeGregorio, former Chairman of the United States Election Assistance Commission, joins Everyone Counts as Chief Operating Officer.
May 2007: UK Vote Anywhere multi-channel election proves successful! Everyone Counts helped the Swindon Borough Council to increase voter access, confidence and turnout in the local council elections with voting available by Internet, telephone and electronically in polling stations. The election is a model for increasing accessibility and voter choice in elections globally.
April 2007: Everyone Counts chosen by a Soon-to-be-Names National Electoral Commission to provide remote voting by Internet for the 2008 Parliamentary elections to Department of Defense employees serving abroad.
December 2006: Everyone Counts chosen to provide Internet voting technology for two of the six consortium selected by the UK government for Electoral Modernisation over the coming four years.
January 2007: Everyone Counts chosen by Swindon Borough Council in the UK to provide the world's first Vote Anywhere multichannel election, ensuring access, security and choice for voters. Voters will have six choices for voting: traditional paper ballot in their specified polling station on polling day, voting electronically in any polling station on polling day, supervised voting by Internet in libraries throughout the borough, voting remotely early and up to the close of polls by either Internet or telephone, and voting by mail. Each electronic voting system will be available in English, Bengali, Konkani and Portuguese.
March 2006: Everyone Counts moves headquarters to San Diego, California and expands to offer 24 hour service from three continents.
February 2006: Robert Bingham, Founder of Simplenet and Bill Strauss, CEO of Provide Commerce join Everyone Counts’ Board of Directors.
October 2005: Complete nominations processes added to eLect. The end to end online process now fully automates the call-for-nominations and collection of nominees, acceptance of nomination and upload candidate information, voting, tabulation and reporting and publication of results
August 2005: Acknowledged by the Institute of Informatics in Business and Government for his expertise in Denial of Service-resistant Internet Voting Systems, Craig Burton, Founder and CTO of Everyone Counts accepts an invitation to present his work at their International eGovernment Conference in Copenhagen.
July 2005: Everyone Counts is accepted to participate in the Australian Technology Showcase, a national forum for innovative technologies.
2004-2005: Everyone Counts contributes to the US Election Assistance Commission Standards Board's Voting System Guidelines.
October 2004: Everyone Counts provides the Internet channel for the National Student/Parent Mock Election in the US, enabling up to four million American school children all over the world.to vote in mock elections identical to their parents’ binding November 2004 elections.
September 2004: Everyone Counts opens US offices, with Lori Steele as CEO of US operations.
April 2004: Third full version of e3 (the Everyone Counts system), with a new user-focused interface is rolled out, the result of 18 months’ intensive work and development.
May 2003: Everyone Counts conducts a binding election for the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the Stratford-On-Avon District Council Election
February 2003: Everyone Counts Pty Ltd. graduates KPMG incubation and is launched as a private company in Australia
June 2002: KPMG Consulting becomes Bearingpoint Inc Australia.
May 2002: University of Barcelona Student Union elections (three faculties). National Executive Committee Elections for the United Kingdom Labor Party.
February 2002: Everyone Counts Pty Ltd is registered with ASIC in Feb 2002.
November 2001: Australian Department of Defence Science and Technology Organization (DSTO) Industrial Relations Ballot for DSTO Staff.
May 2001: eLect^TM runs KPMG Australia National Board Election run via Internet for the first time.
May 2001: e3 software program presented to Premier of Victoria, Steve Bracks.
April 2001: e3 software program presented to United Nations by Jack Miller, Vice Chairman of KPMG US LLP.
October 2000: Everyone Counts provides the most sophisticated online election ever run for Deakin University (Australia): 72 electorates across 5 campuses, voting via webcrossing from Deakin's Callista admin system.
July 2000: OAC invited to join KPMG Consulting technology incubator.
February 2000: Development of e3 software program begins, forming the basis of eLect^TM and emPower^TM.
April 1998: OAC (Online Assessment Company) formed as a vehicle for the commercialization of NEST.
October 1997: NEST used to pilot one of the first on-line elections in the world for UMPA (University of Melbourne Post Graduate Association) with an electorate of 9000 members worldwide.
November 1995: NEST project goes live.
August 1995: Software project NEST (Networked Assessment Toolkit) begins development at Melbourne University's Engineering Multimedia Unit by E1C founder, Craig Burton. NEST allowed educators to build and run on-line assessments for large groups of concurrent users in a true "exam" situation.