Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights

Send Lawyers, Phones, and Money

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and its Election Protection coalition partners are recruiting legal volunteers to staff Election Protection Hotlines across the country and work on the ground as mobile legal volunteers.
Through their phone hotlines: 1-866-OUR-VOTE (administered by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law) and 1-888-Ve-Y-Vota (administered by the National Association of […]

Silent, But Deadly to our Democracy

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

We just got an email from Stacie Miller of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and the Legal Leader of the Election Protection Coalition about a silent, but deadly to our democracy, problem:
The volunteers who staff our polling places are honorable citizens performing an important civic duty - but they need proper training. Do they […]