Tell Patch If You See Election Shenanigans In NYC

NEW YORK CITY — The high-stakes 2020 presidential and general election is days away, with early voting well underway in New York City.

Patch has joined a coalition of newsrooms participating in the nonprofit investigative news organization ProPublica's Electionland project to discover problems that prevent eligible voters from accessing or casting their ballots for the Nov. 3 general election.

Patch participated in the Electionland project in the 2016 election, working with ProPublica to bring you information on broken scanners and long lines at the polls in Brooklyn, the extension of voting hours in North Carolina, voting improprieties in Texas, an election day shooting in Azusa, California, and much more.

Again, we want to hear about any problems that may prevent people from voting — for example, mail ballot delivery problems, voting location changes, long lines, registration problems, purged voter rolls, broken machines and voter intimidation.

Our journalists and those at other newsrooms taking part in the Electionland project will do what we can to document and verify what readers tell us about voting and Election Day experiences. There are several ways to do that:

• SMS: Text the word VOTE, VOTA (for Spanish) or 投票 (for Chinese) to 81380 (standard text message rates apply).
• WhatsApp: Send the word VOTE, VOTA (for Spanish) or 投票 (for Chinese) to 850-909-8683.
• Facebook Messenger: Go to m.me/electionland.
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