It is one outpost of the Election Protection Coalition voter hotline, a volunteer-staffed nonpartisan network of organizations devoted to protecting the right to vote. In Pennsylvania, Republicans filed suit to challenge a state law that bars individuals from monitoring polling site activity in a county where the individual does not live. In addition to providing practical help-desk-level assistance to stressed and distressed voters, coalition officials said they are focused on constitutional obstacles. And there are voters who are dealing with poorly organized state voting systems.”Examples of the latter occupied a lot of hotline time last week. During the 36-hour voter registration extension the organization won in federal court, 28,000 people registered online who otherwise would not have been able to vote.

Source: Washington Post November 06, 2016 22:03 UTC