The Democratic Party is so desperate to beat former President Donald Trump this November that it is literally registering the insane to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris .
The Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, a psychiatric hospital in Harrisburg that serves patients with addiction, depression, schizophrenia, and other disorders, is pushing its patients to register to vote as they check into the hospital before they have been treated or stabilized.
"Voting is an important part of the recovery process," explains a press release obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The hospital’s website explains that voting is a "therapeutic tool" that "helps empower patients and makes them feel good."
Since PPI is a mental health hospital and not a voter registration expert, it has turned to Vot-ER, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that develops "nonpartisan civic engagement tools" for "every corner of the healthcare system."
Vot-ER is now in more than 500 hospitals and clinics nationwide, including in Arizona, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin.
According to its website, Vot-ER is part of a larger movement in the healthcare profession to “empower patients and providers to alleviate the underlying factors of health disparities.”
“Together,” Vot-ER promises, “we're tackling root causes of public health outcomes and fostering a healthier, more equitable society.”
But just how nonpartisan is this partnership between Vot-ER and the doctors who push voter registration on their patients? What if a patient disagrees with his or her doctor’s assessment of what the “root causes” of certain public health outcomes are? Can we really trust these doctors not to push their personal political beliefs, particularly on hot-button social matters, such as abortion, onto their patients? This is particularly disturbing in mental health settings such as the one at PPI.
It doesn’t help that Vot-ER was founded by a doctor who served as a personal adviser to Harris or that it is funded by left-wing nonprofit groups that push diversity, equity, and inclusion beliefs into the healthcare system.
As studies of past nonprofit voter registration drives have shown, these efforts are rarely done on a truly nonpartisan basis. When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg funded supposedly nonpartisan voting registration drives in 2020, later analysis found he concentrated his efforts in “deeply Democratic urban areas.” The end result was a huge gain in Democratic Party registrations, a narrow President Joe Biden win in Wisconsin, and a huge loss in confidence in our electoral system.
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Our nation’s healthcare system already has enough problems with trust. It does not need nakedly partisan organizations, such as Vot-ER, corrupting doctor-patient relationships, especially in mental health settings.
No matter who wins in November, Congress should ban the use of nonprofit dollars for voter registration. If the Democratic and Republican parties want to register voters, they should do so using campaign dollars. Nonprofit organizations should not be involved in voter registration, which is an inherently partisan activity.
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