Count Every Voter Inc. is a 501 C3 tax-exempt organization that promotes democracy in Florida and beyond by educating and motivating the electorate and by developing and supporting procedures and technology to enable smooth, immediate voter registration and free, fair, and secure elections with the greatest possible participation.
A major current initiative for CEV is producing and sharing a voter registration tool that facilitates quick, secure individual and third-party voter registration in ways that are consistent with recent Florida legislation that impacted previous procedures. Other initiatives include data analysis to support registration of under-represented populations, enhanced registration of new young high school and college voters, and establishing a clearinghouse for Florida voting-related information and analysis of the impact of potential legislation and of factors impacting voting and democracy in Florida.
David McDonald is the president of Count Every Voter. He is a retired army colonel and West Point graduate. He established CEV to educate and motivate the electorate and improve the entire electoral system in Florida. David and his wife, Dr. Gulay T. McDonald, are the founders of McDonald Realty, a local Broward County real estate firm.
Lindsay Pollard is the director of finance at Count Every Voter. She is a founder of Diverse Strategy Group (DSG) whose clients have included Florida Senator Shevrin Jones, Harold Pryor from the Broward County State Attorney’s office, Emma Collum, candidate for the statehouse, and Renee Gordon, former candidate for circuit court judge in Miami-Dade County. In the 2020 election cycle, Lindsay was treasurer for Nancy Metayer for Coral Springs commissioner, and in 2018, she served as Andrew Gillum’s deputy finance director in his gubernatorial bid. She is currently a board member of Ruth's List Florida. Lindsay is a graduate of Florida A&M University with a degree in journalism. She earned an MBA in finance from Nova Southeastern University.
Zo Mitchell, a servant and community ambassador to the Central Florida community, has 15 plus years of civic engagement, development, and equity experience, and is the owner of Monarch Strategies LLC, a political consulting firm focused on BIPOC, gender, and working class mobilization. Zo has managed campaigning, fundraising, and field/organizing operations for issue-based and electoral movements at local, congressional, and statewide levels, while providing strategic planning and operations support to 501c3, c4, and Political Action Committees across Florida and the Southeast. Zo holds a bachelor's of science degree in Economics and U.S. History with a concentration in African-American Studies from Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC, and a Master’s of Public Administration and Policy from The Graduate School of Public & International Affairs, at the University of Pittsburgh, PA. In his spare time, Zo enjoys traveling, action movies, and the arts, especially music and dance.
Jelani Harvey is the political director of Count Every Voter. Jelani has close to 10 years of non-profit/government-organizing experience. He is currently the elected supervisor of the Broward County Soil & Water Conservation District, where he works with local, state, and federal stakeholders on best practices for soil and water conservation. Jelani holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Columbia University and a master’s from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
