The ACLU of Kansas received 17 calls from Wyandotte County to its Election Protection hotline during voting today.
According to Mark McCormick, director of strategic communications for the ACLU, five of the calls were from people who did not want to vote at a Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department building.
The South Patrol police station in the Argentine area of Kansas City, Kansas, is one of the polling places.
He said there was also some confusion from voters who called the ACLU and who thought their polling place was at the Argentine Community Center, not the community room at the police station.
McCormick said two of the 17 calls were about provisional ballots.
There were no calls about anyone being turned away from the polls, he said. The 17 calls were received by about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The ACLU’s Election Protection hotline number:
866-OUR-VOTE provides assistance in English – administered by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law;
888-VE-Y-VOTA provides bilingual assistance in English and Spanish – administered by NALEO Educational Fund;
888-API-VOTE provides assistance in Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Begali, Hindi, Urdu and Tagalog – administered by APIA Vote and Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC).