Election Protection Opportunities

Volunteer Opportunites

Volunteer Opportunities are available to anyone, and training is available. Sign up ASAP for anything you might be interested in to ensure that you attend the next training. 

Election Protection Ambassadors help spread the word about the Election Protection Hotline 866-OUR-VOTE to their friends, neighbors and community members. Ambassadors distribute posters, palm cards, or yard signs featuring the Election Protection Hotline 866-OUR-VOTE and other voting rights literature to places such as barbershops, bookstores, churches, coffee shops and food pantries. Ambassadors are also trained to give presentations to community groups and answer frequently asked voting questions about updating voter registration, requesting and tracking absentee ballots, and more. Click here to learn more or to sign up to be an Ambassador.

Poll Monitors are needed to assist voters outside the polls during Early Voting (October 6-November 2) and on Election Day (November 3). Health and safety considerations permitting, Poll Monitors will stand outside of early vote centers and polling places to answer voter questions, distribute fliers with voter education, and report problems to the Election Protection Hotline. Poll monitors may cycle between a handful of locations. Our priority will be covering polling locations, which have historically had the most problems in: Akron, Athens, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo and Youngstown. Training will be provided. Click here to learn more or sign up to be a Poll Monitor.

Social Media Monitors – Social Media Monitors are needed now through Election Day to ensure accurate voting information on social media. Disinformation and misinformation can spread like wildfire and are real threats to this election. Because the flow of information is constant and the content is not viewable by all, we will need assistance calling out these campaigns. Volunteers will receive training on how to monitor their social media feeds for disinformation and misinformation so that we can source it, report it and remove it if needed. Social Media Monitors will also be provided a toolkit for promoting positive messages about voting and to extend the reach of critical voter education. Click here to learn more or sign up to be a Social Media Monitor.

Command Center Volunteers (Legal Experience Preferred) – Volunteers are needed to monitor the Election Protection Hotline to ensure that election problems are resolved by boards of election officials. Command Center Volunteers will receive training on how to use Our Vote Live, the database of election related questions and problems reported through the Election Protection Hotline. Sign up today to monitor the Hotline.

Information from League of Women Voters October 7, 2020