The Voting Rights Alliance's 2018 Command Center recap: What problems did voters experience nationwide?

Administered by the Transformative Justice Coalition , on November 6 th , 2018, the Voting Rights Alliance aided voters with a Non-partisan National Election Command Center which monitored social media complaints made by voters.

The Command Center, which was staffed by 20 Howard University Law Students and members of the Voting Rights Alliance, was hosted by the Hip Hop Caucus at its DC office. The Command Center generated the bulk of 102,000 impressions and 330 tweets from the Voting Rights Alliance’s Twitter account .

Volunteers also made over 200 reports of problems voter experienced while voting covering a vast majority of states. Common problems included:

  • long lines; closed or late opening polling locations;

  • voter registration problems;

  • denial of provisional ballots;

  • last minute polling place relocations;

  • broken scanners and machines;

  • no ballots;

  • absentee ballot problems;

  • wrong or incomplete ballots given;

  • voter intimidation;

  • confusing flyers on a college campus;

  • voter ID confusion;

  • no disability accessibility;

  • no bilingual translators;

  • cell phone use confusion;

  • Uber taking people to wrong polling place;

  • disorganized election administrations;

  • no electricity at polling places to operate machines;

  • exact match ballot rejections;

  • vote flipping;

  • and, other serious vote denial problems.

    A report from the Command Center will be compiled and shared with the public.

Caitlyn Cobb