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Discussion on channels for reporting language access problems on election day

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Council Member Hanif and Executive Director Ryan engage in a Q&A about the channels available for reporting language access issues on election day. Ryan outlines multiple ways voters can report problems.

Ryan mentions reporting options including poll site coordinators, the Board of Elections office hotline, and the Attorney General's hotline
He emphasizes the importance of reporting issues on election day for immediate remedial action
Ryan encourages council members to inform the Board of any issues they learn about post-election

Michael Ryan

1:36:12

I think all of the all of the above.

1:36:14

The if something's happening in the field and it doesn't come back to us as as having occurred, then there's no way for us

1:36:26

So there's different ways they could do it.

1:36:27

They can they can report it at the poll site to the coordinator.

1:36:32

They can call, our office, our office hotline.

1:36:36

They can be, as I said, the attorney general in particular and and others have, their hotlines that they advertise on Election Day.

1:36:44

So if there's a problem, they can let us know.

1:36:47

Now, if it doesn't happen on Election Day, which would be the best time for us to know about it?

1:36:51

So maybe we could take remedial action on the fly.

1:36:54

But if it doesn't happen on on election day and, you know, folks like yourself, learn of things, you know, let us know, and then we'll, while we might be generally doing a good job, there might be a specific location that's a problem.

1:37:09

And if we don't know about it, we can't fix it.

1:37:12

So how we typically, how we generally, choose the language representations is we work closely with the department of City Planning.

Shahana K. Hanif

1:36:03

On the day of though, are are, voters, tasked with, calling one of the hotlines or talking to one of the folks who are on-site?

1:36:22

But what's that channel?

1:36:23

Like, the reporter tells

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