Who to contact if you or others need rapid response assistance while voting.

Building a democracy that works better for young people takes collective effort that goes beyond casting ballots on Election Day. Everyone can play a part in safeguarding our election processes, expanding voter access and turnout, and ensuring basic civil rights and freedoms are honored. 

Who to go to for legal support

These organizations provide legal assistance and resources to those whose right to vote is coming under threat:

• Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
• Legal Defense Fund
• League of Women Voters

Get involved with youth advocacy groups

These organizations, networks, and coalitions conduct advocacy around elections, ballot access, voter protections, and voter turnout with a focus on young people:

• Campus Vote Project | Fair Elections Center
• Rock The Vote
• Generation Vote
• ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge
• Students Learn Students Vote Coalition
• New Voters
• Voters of Tomorrow

Young people have always been at the forefront of the fight for free and democratic elections. Resources like the Election Protection Hotline, 866-OUR-VOTE, protect young people’s voting rights and empower the next generation of organizers, advocates, and litigators across the nation.

NICHOLAS GOTHARD, LAWYERS’ COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW 

Election protection hotlines and rapid response assistance

For support on or before Election Day, contact the Lawyers’ Committee’s Election Protection Hotline. If you need more robust rapid response assistance, we recommend connecting with the following service providers who may be able to help you:

• Democracy Security Project (DSP): DSP provides training and physical safety, cybersecurity / privacy, event and protest protocols, and emotional well-being services. 
• Vision Change Win: Vision Change Win provides urgent and emergent incident response support around personal/home safety, organizational safety, action and event safety, digital security, and internal / external incidents or threats. Vision Change Win can help troubleshoot digital, organizational, electoral, protest, event, fiscal, hate-based, and/or state violence.
  • Check out this Electoral Safety Toolkit put together by the Vision Change Win team.
• Pirth.org: Pirth provides preventative and rapid-response support for people facing any type of threat or harm online — while also working to advance systemic solutions that protect everyone.