Richard Bell served on the DNC National Lawyers Council, the Minority Voting Rights Committee, was an electoral poll monitor for the Obama campaign in Philadelphia in 2012, and an electoral poll monitor for the Clinton campaign in Broward County, Florida during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. He has also argued and won an appeal of a court order protecting voters' rights in New Jersey on Election Day, 2006. Bell has been a frequently called upon legal analyst for the media, including CBS News, CNBC, ABC TV.