Election Protection Explained
Election Protection is an American non-partisan coalition of voting rights activists.[1] [2] The English language hotline is managed by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a national civil rights organization, and accepts complaints from individuals. The Spanish hotline is managed by the NALEO Educational Fund.[1] They also offer hotlines in multiple Asian languages, Arabic, ASL, and have a disability rights hotline.[3]
It was founded in 2002.[4] Election Protection is non-partisan and one of the largest[5] voter protection coalitions in the country. consisting of over 100 local, state and national partners,[6]
In the 2006 general election it received 13,500 reports of voting problems, and considered a fifth of them serious.[7] It received 31,000 calls in 2018.[8] During the 2020 general election, its national hotline received over 230,000 calls.[9]
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Notes and References
- Web site: About Us - Election Protection. 25 May 2018.
- "Election Protection. Can I Have Your Name?". . 8 November 2012 . 25 May 2018.
- Web site: Election Protection. 2020-10-14. Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. en-US.
- News: Halpern . Sue . 2018-11-06 . The National Hotline for Voter Complaints Has Received More than Twenty Thousand Calls on Election Day . en-us . New Yorker . 2020-07-07.
- News: Halpern . Sue . 2018-11-13 . The Vote Counts in Florida and Georgia Bring a Touch of Fairness to a Dysfunctional Election Day . en-us . New Yorker . 2020-07-07.
- https://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/c.php?g=729620&p=7894886 "Voter Services"
- News: Broache . Anne . 2006-11-08 . A sampling of e-voting glitches on election day 2006 . en . CNET . 2020-07-07.
- News: 2018-11-08 . US mid-terms: When voting goes wrong . en-GB . BBC News . 2020-07-07.
- https://www.kare11.com/article/news/politics/election-protection-hotline-up-and-running/89-fe76b08d-43b3-4ec9-ad37-35c69cb286dc "Election Protection Hotline up and running, staffed by Twin Cities lawyers and paralegals"
