There was some temporary “mass hysteria” in Cleveland on Election Day when voters were erroneously told they had to use only a certain color ink to vote. In contrast, in another part of the country, voters were taking pens as souvenirs, leaving the next person without any way to mark his or her ballot.
Those were just two of many issues that volunteer lawyers dispatched throughout the country dealt with as volunteer poll watchers. Their job was to make sure all voting laws were followed and no one was disenfranchised, said Jaimie F. Dockray, who heads up Bingham McCutchen’s pro bono efforts in Connecticut and on the rest of the East Coast.
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