How I spent my Election Day
I spent fifteen hours on Election Day in a conference room in a Manhattan law firm, surrounded by dozens of attorneys, fielding questions from what felt like all of them. It wasn’t the callback interview from hell, though: I’d volunteered to help work the Election Protection Coalition’s 866-OUR-VOTE callin hotline.
The hotline has existed for some years, but after 2000, it became much more well-publicized and well-funded. Its goal is to allow poll watchers, voters, and election workers to call in with questions, comments, and especially their observations of anything that looks like irregularities in the electoral process. The line connects callers to banks of volunteer attorneys and law students at call centers all over the country. Even though there was a call center in San Francisco, I’d been tapped to fill a last-minute hole in a phone bank responsible for handling calls from Pennsylvania.
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source: How I spent my Election Day
