Election protection coalition to put 2,000 volunteers on the ground in Pennsylvania
A coalition of Pennsylvania election protection groups will have almost 2,000 volunteers on the ground on Tuesday to monitor polling places, and it will also be offering a hotline for voters to call if they experience any problems.
“Our goal is to make sure that every eligible voter is able to cast a ballot this year,” said Witold “Vic” Walczak, the legal director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania, during a video press conference on Thursday.
Suzanne Almeida, the interim executive director of Common Cause Pennsylvania, said the “well-trained, non-partisan volunteers” will serve as the voters’ “first line of defense” across the Keystone State in what is expected to be a tense and emotionally charged election.
Almeida said the number of volunteers is about four times the amount that worked the mid-term elections in 2018. The toll-free hotline, 866-OUR-VOTE, is staffed by lawyers trained in election law and is already operational, she said.
The hotline was averaging about 1,000 calls per day earlier this week, but it still handled 750 calls on Wednesday, Almeida said. A coalition statement said most of the questions from voters concerned mail-in ballots.
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