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free flow of thinking of the individual who's attempting to vote and make one uncomfortable, right? If you have an unfamiliar face and that person is hostile with you or not hostile with you or you have strange people who are hanging out around polls and attempting to intimidate, So all of those types of matters, all the types of matters we'll be watching out for, and if necessary, we'll engage in, and I say we, I'm talking about the attorneys who are involved in legal monitoring and our partner organizations, which the Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights, as well as the National Urban League, we have this MOU where we're doing the legal monitoring with those organizations, will work to engage legal action that will help to ameliorate whatever situation it may be.

Is that where more concern should be after the election with court actions, which we know this administration is very eager to do because it presents a more troubling situation, too, where the Department of Justice used to be a fair arbitrator in times like that.

They are now going to be an active participant in favoring what the administration wants.

So we have incredible organizations that have joined with us to do this.

And on this call, we have the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Harriet's Wildest Dreams, Free DC, an advancement project, which are some of the core organizers of making sure this election protection effort in DC is going to work.

So what is election protection? So we are going to, well, let's actually, sorry about that.

Let us move to the next slide, I thought.

Thanks for joining.

My name is Nick Gothard.

I use he, him pronouns working at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

We're going to be talking a little bit more about election protection in D.C. this June, what you as voters or as volunteers should know to stand up for you and your neighbors' rights to vote.

Well, I feel like you're always in court, Damon.

The lawyers committee, the lawyers committee is always doing somebody because unfortunately, in this day and age, somebody is always out there infringing on people's civil rights.

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Peter Tickton, who is one of the president's friends from childhood, and he's a lawyer.

have to have lawyers standing in there because they're going to try.

Unfortunately, we'll have that.

We'll have thousands of lawyers recruited, trained and deployed by the Lawyers Committee and our partners through the Election Protection Coalition.

We have the 866-OUR-VOTE hotline.

So we work together, actually.

The NAACP, the ACLU, the National Urban League, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, et cetera, we all work together.

And if you come to our conferences, you'll see all of those elements at play We're sort of like a binding tie of all those organizations.

We serve as a meeting place for progressive ideas and civil rights strategies, visions, et cetera.

And so I, um, spent 12 years on the San Francisco School Board and Board of Supervisors, where I negotiated at the highest levels of middle income and affordable housing in the country.

Um, and I, um, was also serving as a civil rights attorney at Lawyers' Committee working on voting rights work as well.

And then I went on to work for Senator Bernie Sanders as his California political director, and then spent the last four years as the California director of Working Families Party building a corporate-free electoral infrastructure-

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We're working with ACLU in Wisconsin.

We're working with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law in, oh gosh, quite a few states.

In Georgia and a few others.

And what they're all looking for is they're looking for lawyers who can monitor polling places, so they can ac- go there and sup- connect with voters to offer free legal support.

That is eight six six R-VOTE.

This is Election Protection Hotline that is led by, um, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law and a range of other civil rights and civil society organizations that contribute to it, and it is, uh, uh, available twenty-four hours.

It will get you the help you need, and that is what we want people to understand, that this is an administration that wants to intimidate you.

They don't want you to show up to the polls.