Rx Vote: National Physicians Alliance and Voter Registration
June 20th, 2008 by bronxdoc
The National Physicians Alliance has developed a campaign at www.RxVote.org to promote voter registration in health centers and clinics. This is being done in coordination with Rock the Vote.
The campaign’s website provides a fairly complete set of tools for organizing a voter registration drive. Among these are:
- Links to the Rock the Vote website where an individual can fill out a state specific voter registration forms on-line.
- Specific advice on organizing a voter registration drive in a clinic.
- Answers to frequently asked questions about voting which include information on voter registration deadlines, homelessness and voting, felony voting rights and voters with special circumstances.
- Connections to a Facebook page for the campaign.
The information on felony voting rights comes from the Sentencing Project. According to the project “1.4 million African American men, or 13% of black men, are disenfranchised, a rate seven times the national average.” This is one of the many impacts of mass incarceration on our communities. And yet another reason for us to strengthen the ailing fabric of US democracy.
