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Election Protection for Attorneys: How to Help Voters in 2020
Produced on September 25, 2020
Course Information
Course Description
This program will survey the problems most likely to disenfranchise vulnerable voters in the 2020 election and avenues to overcome them, focusing on nuts-and-bolts voting mechanics such as voter registration, voting by mail, long lines, voter ID, provisional ballots, early voting, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on voters and election administrators.
Presented by Doug Lindner, National Voter Protection Director of the Voter Protection Corps, this program will benefit legal professionals serving as poll workers, poll observers, hotline volunteers, election administrators, or in any other capacity related to facilitating the voting process.
Attendees who do not yet have a role to facilitate the voting process in the upcoming election are encouraged (but not required) to serve their communities as poll workers, and can sign up to do so at "voter-protection.org/be-a-pollworker".
- Identify the key issues causing problems for voters
- Discuss the legal and governmental structure of election administration
- Assist voters facing common problems
- Consider opportunities to get involved in facilitating the democratic process in your community
Credit Information
Faculty
Doug Lindner
Voter Protection Corps
Doug Lindner is a voting rights lawyer and political staffer currently serving as National Voter Protection Director of the Voter Protection Corps, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and expanding the right to vote. Prior to joining the Voter Protection Corps, he served as Campaign Counsel and National Voter Protection Director for Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign and Voter Protection Director for the Montana Democratic Party during Senator Jon Tester’s successful re-election campaign. Doug has also served on the Democratic Party’s Voter Protection teams for Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s election and New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan’s election, and worked on voting rights and civil rights issues nationwide at the ACLU. He holds a J.D. and an M.P.A. from New York University.
Reviews
Thank you for a great program.
Speaker was very knowledgeable but spoke way too fast!
Learned a lot about ways voting rights can be suppressed.
Thank you!
Excellent nonpartisan presentation of information.
Really enjoyed this primer on the mechanics of the ballot process. Relevant and informative.
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Excellent and extremely informative. Thank you!
excellent presentation
Great course! Very relevant!
I really enjoyed the course.
very informative
very timely and informative
A wealth of well organized information offered by a knowledgeable & engaging presenter. Thank you!
Excellent and timely.
Very informative, easy to follow, and engaging
Very informative. Excellent faculty and presentation. Great topic!
Outstanding course!
Good, practical, and new (to me) information. I also appreciate the lack of partisan commentary.
Terrific Course. One of the best!
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Thank you.
Great program, thank you! Signed up to be a poll worker :)
This presenter was exceptional!
The presenter was knowledgeable, well-spoken, easy to understand and a overall pleasure to listen to. Thanks!!
The presenter was extremely knowledgeable, but I wish the course had been extended to 1.5 hours because too much material to cover in just 1 hour.
Informative. Excellent resources. Thank you.
Great course! Thanks!
excellent and timely topic
Exceeded my expectations. Excellent program.
The best so far - very relevant/timely
Excellent presenter Well organized Engaging Loved it
Excellent presentation.
THIS GUY WAS TERRIFIC. Super useful info. Highly recommend.
There was a lot of info in a compressed time frame but it was well presented with good supporting documentation.
Extremely well informed and timely information. My highest recommendation.
Nice job. Timely.
Timely and packed with useful information. Great program.
Great info and veryrelevant
Thank you.
I appreciated that Doug spoke quickly, covered the topic thoroughly, and was engaging.