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This November, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey and League of Women Voters of New Jersey are looking for your help to monitor the polls and election courts and answer our voter hotlines as part of our statewide election protection effort during the 2009 general election.

As a poll monitor, a non-partisan role, you would offer voters information about their rights and conduct exit polling about voters' experiences casting their votes across the state on November 3. Monitors also let voters know about the voter protection hotline, their options for getting help with their voting rights at the polls and the right to appeal a challenge keeping them from voting in court. We will have attorneys on hand to assist voters and poll monitors who encounter problems at the polls.

What to Expect:

• Each session as a poll monitor lasts for at least four hours November 3
• Volunteers must attend a three-hour training session in the weeks before November 3. Trainings will be held in afternoon, evening and weekend sessions to accommodate your schedule.
• You will be working with another person staffed at your site, and the ACLU-NJ and LWVNJ will be available to help you if you run into problems
• Polling sites will be in Camden, Newark, Elizabeth, Hoboken, Red Bank, Somerville and New Brunswick, among other cities. We try our best to accommodate specific requests, but our placements are based on availability and need.

What you'll need:

• Volunteers must have cell phones to keep in contact with election protection staff
• Volunteers must provide their own transportation to and from their polling sites or county election courts. If you want to volunteer at a specific polling site, we will try our best to accommodate your request, but we assign our monitors based on availability and need.

Volunteering for the hotline:

• The two hotline sites are the LWVNJ office in Trenton and the ACLU-NJ office in Newark
• Volunteers must also attend a three-hour training session before November 3
• Volunteers must have their own transportation to the offices, but both are accessible by public transportation.

We look forward to seeing you. Thank you for doing your part to protect democracy.

To volunteer for Voter Protection 2009 and to learn more, contact: Anne Barron, Project Coordinator, at 973-642-2084 x 27 or e-mail vote@aclu-nj.org; Jesse Burns, League of Women Voters of New Jersey at 609-394-3303 or jburns@lwvnj.org

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