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Voting from the ER: How health care workers are driving civic engagement

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By the 2018 midterm elections, Schavrien and her colleague Erin Ainslie Smith had launched a hospital-wide effort to help patients register to vote or cast ballots if they were unexpectedly hospitalized on Election Day. Department of Health and Human Services. She had missed the deadline for an absentee ballot application.