Voting Rights Service Initiative

Voting Rights Toolkit

Version 2 - Updated 8/4/2021 

As a part of our multi-component voting rights initiative, CRSJ has created a Voting Rights Toolkit to provide technical assistance to you as you serve your community and our country in various ways. We have included information to help you identify election-related issues encountered by vulnerable populations - including people with disabilities, those residing in long-term care facilities and people with limited English proficiency to name a few - and work toward solutions. This toolkit also contains links and contact information to state and local government entities, along with legal organizations, to help you to obtain such information.

Election Protection Partnership

The ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice is proud to partner with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on Election Protection.

The national, nonpartisan Election Protection coalition works year-round to ensure that all voters have an equal opportunity to vote and have that vote count. Made up of more than 100 local, state and national partners, Election Protection uses a wide range of tools and activities to protect, advance and defend the right to vote.

Election Protection provides Americans from coast to coast with comprehensive information and assistance at all stages of voting – from registration, to absentee and early voting, to casting a vote at the polls, to overcoming obstacles to their participation. Election Protection helps voters make sure their vote is counted through a number of resources, including:

• A suite of voter helplines: 866-OUR-VOTE (administered by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law), 888-Ve-Y-Vota (Spanish/English) – administered  by the NALEO Educational Fund, 844-Yalla-US (Arabic/English) – administered by the Arab American Institute, and 888-API-VOTE (English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali) – administered  by APIAVote and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC.
• Voter protection field programs across the country (legal – managed by the Lawyers’ Committee and grassroots – managed by Common Cause).
• Digital outreach tools including 866ourvote.org, @866ourVote, and facebook.com/866OurVote.

Throughout the election cycle, Election Protection volunteers provide voter information, document problems they encounter when voting and work with partners and volunteers on the ground to identify and remove barriers to voting. Election Protection focuses on the voter – not on the political horse race – and provides guidance, information and help to any American, regardless of his or her voting choices.

Click here to go to the Election Protection website.