Election Protection

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[5] and one of the largest[6] voter protection coalitions in the country.[5] consisting of over 100 local, state and national partners,[7]

In the 2006 general election it received 13,500 reports of voting problems, and considered a fifth of them serious.[8] It received 31,000 calls in 2018.[5] During the 2020 general election, its national hotline received over 230,000 calls.[9]

References
  1. "About Us - Election Protection". Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  2. ""Election Protection. Can I Have Your Name?"". The New Yorker. 8 November 2012. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  3. "Election Protection". Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
  4. 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.
  5. "US mid-terms: When voting goes wrong". BBC News. 2018-11-08. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  6. 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.
  7. "Voter Services" The University of Chicago Library. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
  8. Broache, Anne (2006-11-08). "A sampling of e-voting glitches on election day 2006". CNET. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
  9. "Election Protection Hotline up and running, staffed by Twin Cities lawyers and paralegals" Gordon Severson, KARE 11, November 7, 2022. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
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