Voting problem at the polls? Here’s how to report it through Electionland
Again this election season, The News & Observer and The Herald-Sun are working with Electionland, a national project to track and investigate voting problems in North Carolina.
And particularly this year, those problems are showing up long before Election Day — from confusion over absentee voting rules to mail slowdowns to clerical errors. If you experience a problem with voting — whether pre-election or on Election Day — we want to hear about it.
That’s where our partnership with Electionland comes in. Electionland is a project of ProPublica, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative journalism organization. Journalists working with the project are collecting complaints and concerns from voters around the country to spot trends, misinformation and hacking.
If you have a voting issue, you can report it in a number of ways so that journalists can investigate:
SMS: Text the word VOTE (VOTA for Spanish) to 81380.
WhatsApp: Send the word VOTE (VOTA for Spanish) to 1-850-909-8683.
Facebook Messenger: Go to m.me/electionland.
North Carolina residents who have voting problems or questions also should call the North Carolina State Board of Elections at (919) 814-0700 or (866) 522-4723; or email elections.sboe@ncsbe.gov.
Particularly on Election Day, Electionland’s goal is to document voting problems and impediments nationwide, including:
- long lines
- harassment at the polls
- misinformation about voting
- registration purges
- changed voting locations
- provisional ballot use
- voter ID issues
- ballot design problems
- vote disruption caused by hacking
You can follow election coverage by our team of political reporters by reading our Voter Guide and signing up for our Under the Dome politics newsletter. And you can contact the politics team at dome@newsobserver.com or politics editor Jordan Schrader at jschrader@newsobserver.com.
Use this form to report your voting problem:
This story was originally published October 11, 2020 at 2:34 PM.
