The mission of Election Defense Alliance is to restore electoral integrity as the foundation of American democracy, by alerting the citizenry to the illusions and dangers of privatized, computerized, fraud-prone voting machines, and working to replace this illegitimate system of secret vote-counting with hand-counted paper ballot elections, conducted by citizens in the precincts in public view, so that the vote-counting process is transparent, secure, verified, and fully accountable to the voters.EDA is building infrastructure for the mass citizen movement that will be necessary to bring about this change, as we continue to monitor and defend elections against overt voter suppression and covert fraud and manipulation, starting from the local precincts and building upward.