Medical Economics September 11, 2024
Physician founder of Vot-ER recalls the beginning of a national movement to advance voter registration in health care settings.
Doctors have a chance to influence democracy when they help their patients register to vote, whether in this election season or in the future, said the physician founder of an organization devoted to voting.
Alister Martin, MD, MPP, started Vot-ER in 2019 as a hospital pilot program in Massachusetts. Since then, it has grown into a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to supplying voter registration assistance and election reminders. The word and the work has spread, with more than 50,000 physicians and other clinicians helping their patients register to vote at approximately 700 participating sites, and with more than 400 partnerships.
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