Election Protection

Election Protection is an American non-partisan coalition of voting rights activists.[1][2][3] 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 (866-OUR-VOTE). 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.[4]

It was founded in 2002.[5] Election Protection is non-partisan[6] and one of the largest[7] voter protection coalitions in the country. It had 31,000 calls in 2018.[6] In the 2006 general election it received 13,500 reports of voting problems, and considered a fifth of them serious.[8]

Access and supporting organizations

A web search for "Election Protection" on September 16, 2020, identified multiple superficially different web sites that will refer you to the main "Election Protection" web site 866ourvote.org:

Other websites mentioned "Election Protection" but did not obviously link to 866ourvote.org, and were therefore not included in this list.

References
  1. "About Us - Election Protection". Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  2. ""Election Protection. Can I Have Your Name?"". Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  3. Zambon, Kat (29 September 2008). "Nation's Largest Election Protection Coalition Launches Hotline, Website". Retrieved 25 May 2018 – via AlterNet.
  4. "Election Protection". Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
  5. Halpern, Sue (2018-11-06). "The National Hotline for Voter Complaints Has Received More than Twenty Thousand Calls on Election Day". New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  6. "US mid-terms: When voting goes wrong". BBC News. 2018-11-08. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  7. Halpern, Sue (2018-11-13). "The Vote Counts in Florida and Georgia Bring a Touch of Fairness to a Dysfunctional Election Day". New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  8. Broache, Anne (2006-11-08). "A sampling of e-voting glitches on election day 2006". CNET. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
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