Important volunteer positions for lawyers: help protect the election!

The presidential election is fast approaching and lawyers are urgently needed to help protect voters' rights. With the expected high turnout in this year's critical and highly-contested election, there's an increased risk of problems at the polls and your help is needed now more than ever. If you are a lawyer, paralegal, or law student, please consider volunteering with our friends at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights or Advancement Project, and share this email with other attorneys who may be interested in participating.

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is seeking legal volunteers for two critical tasks — answering the Election Protection hotline and serving as mobile legal volunteers. The hotline will provide live assistance to voters who have questions or need to report problems with voting, and mobile legal volunteers will work in teams of two to respond to incidents reported through the hotline and assist voters at polling places.

Click here to get more information about the Lawyers' Committee's election protection volunteer opportunities and to sign up.

In response to the disenfranchisement caused by poll worker error, confusion, and misadministration of election rules in recent elections, Advancement Project has drafted poll worker palm cards to assist poll workers in understanding and adhering to key election rules on Election Day. The palm cards are easy-to-read, easy-to-use guides to the top ten issues of election administration that a poll worker will likely face on Election Day, and lawyers are needed to help review and disseminate these cards.

Click here for more information about Advancement Project poll worker palm cards and instructions on how you can help.

We hope that you will take advantage of these opportunities to use your legal skills to protect the 2008 election. Please volunteer and help make sure that every voter is able to cast their vote this year.

Thank You for working to build a better world.

Leah Donahey,
Campaign Manager CREDO Action from Working Assets