An Underused Treatment Strategy: Voter Enfranchisement

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On November 3, 2020, the USA faces a unique election. This election will occur amidst a historically divided nation confronting a global pandemic and a steepening economic recession, while a national movement for racial justice wages on during an election cycle with a presidential incumbent who was recently impeached. Providers at community health centers (CHCs) are facing unique challenges in this landscape, serving as essential workers themselves while looking for ways to support some of the most vulnerable patients in the nation—many of whom bear the greatest burden of COVID-19, economic recession, and racial injustice, but whose voices are also often left out of the national political conversation.^1‐4 There has never been a more important time for CHCs to amplify the voices of their patients through healthcare-sponsored non-partisan voter registration. …