As you head to the polls today, take this phone number with you: 866/OUR-VOTE. (866/687-8683)

That’s the voter assistance hotline manned by the nonpartisan Election Protection Coalition, a project of the People for the American Way Foundation, the NAACP, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. If you are having trouble figuring out how or where to vote, or if you think you are being denied your right to vote, they promise to have trained volunteers providing immediate, state specific, assistance to callers.

This article appears in November 3 • 2006.

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