From a September 12, 2024, stream on Locals

CATHERINE ENGELBRECHT (TRUE THE VOTE FOUNDER): VoteAlert is specifically for election-related matters. So once we start, you know, gaining momentum, which is going to be here in just the next few weeks, things are gonna just tick up, up, up, up, up, we will start doing daily reports. And with those daily reports, we will tell you the lay of the land inside of VoteAlert, what we're seeing, what we're hearing, how many things have come in, from where, the types of issues. This is — again, just an added layer of intentional, being very intentional about creating transparency around the process so that if there are problems, we can deal with them decisively and quickly. 

Let's talk about that for a second. What does it mean when you put in a problem? What do we do on the other side other than just read it and say, you know, “Yes or no?” If it's a question that we can answer, we're going to answer it. If it's a question that needs resolution and we can't answer it, we will tell you where to go, or we will reach out on your behalf and try to get that answer for you. If it is something that's going down at the polls, where there are problems at the polls at that moment, we will, depending upon the circumstance, contact the county and let them know of reports that we are receiving. If it has, if it's a few steps further out than that and we need to engage law enforcement, we are working with sheriffs who will be able — and not nationwide, but regionally, to take a look and help with the dispatch on those. 

It is not a perfect process, but it is a very intentional circuitry behind the scenes of making sure that things that don't — that are reported just don't get reported into the wind, but that they are going towards resolution and the follow-up. So that, again, it's just — it's the goal here is to have a community of, you know, problem, solution, confidence building.