Poor health can keep us from the polls, and in advance of Tuesday’s election, I wanted to do something about it. The Social Justice Coalition at Cambridge Health Alliance is combating this unrecognized and insidious form of voter suppression by educating hospitalized patients about their opportunities to vote. In Virginia, for example, if an eligible voter becomes ill or hospitalized before an election, he or she can vote via emergency absentee ballot. In California, the laws are similar to ours in Massachusetts — proxies, including hospital volunteers, can pick up ballots at election offices on Election Day. Empowering hospitalized patients to vote is part of that mission.

Source: Fox News November 04, 2016 18:14 UTC