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"Election Protection" Hotline At UNC Law

There’s a toll-free, non-partisan election hotline available for voters with Election Day questions or problems.

Leoneda Inge:  Faculty and staff at UNC’s law school will be fielding calls as part of the national advocacy protection initiative called “Election Protection.” The number to call is – 1-866-OUR-VOTE.  Elizabeth Haddix is senior staff attorney at the UNC Law Center for Civil Rights.  She expects a lot of calls.

Elizabeth Haddix:  Well the voter ID initiative in North Carolina has been very confusing for people.  I know that this is true across the country, but in NC you don’t have to have an ID with you unless it’s your first time to vote, you registered by mail and you didn’t provide identification in that registration application.

About 600 calls came in during early voting in North Carolina. The UNC Law School phone bank will be in operation until 7:30 tonight.

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
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