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No. If you actively see someone harassing someone. That's a crime. Call 911. The fuck with calling a random 800 number.
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2024
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Who do you call when it's the police doing the harassing?
The fuck relevance is that? Where do you think police are sitting at polling places harassing people?
When they're off duty? Quite possibly.
What happens when you call them?
This is the group handling hotline coordination: https://866ourvote.org/about/
This one is actually administering the English-speaking hotline: https://lawyerscommittee.org/
They don't go into specifics of how they handle things, likely because it will vary by situation, but it sounds like they have a number of tools and actions at their disposal.
Not American, and couldn’t find a non-partisan resource, but here goes:
https://democrats.org/civic-engagement-and-voter-protection/
Our voter hotline exists to answer questions that cannot be easily answered online. The hotline is monitored by DNC employees who are prepared to field questions pertaining to felon disenfranchisement, voter purging, poll worker misconduct, voter machines, and accessibility. The hotline regularly operates on weekdays from 9:00am-6:00pm EST/EDT, and expands to both weekdays and weekends from 9:00am-9:00pm EST/EDT starting in October during election years.
TBF....voter intimidation is likely to be coming from the Republicans. I wouldn't trust any sort of hotline they post, even if it was in good faith.
Republicans are the only ones to resort to violence or threats and that's been true for decades.