Reply #12: Activists Take Measures to Ensure Fair Elections

[Melissa G]

Activists Take Measures to Ensure Fair Elections
by Catherine Komp
Nov. 6 – Civil-rights and public-interest groups across the country will be dispatching lawyers, sending out poll monitors, and staffing hotlines across the country Tuesday in an effort to protect against potential voting-rights infringements.

In advance of the election, the American Civil Liberties Union says it has distributed tens of thousands of multi-lingual "voter empowerment" cards informing voters about their rights and how to avoid problems at the polls.

Concerns listed by the ACLU include potential voter harassment or intimidation, disinformation campaigns, and "excessive and unnecessary presence of uniformed law enforcement personnel at polling places." The civil rights group is sending observers to polling places and launched a toll-free voter hotline: [phone].

People for the American Way (PFAW), which first launched an "Election Protection" effort after the 2000 presidential election, said it will send thousands of volunteers to key polling places and staff hundreds of lawyers at their hotline: 1-866-OUR-VOTE.

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