According to a letter, Congress is looking into a little-known nonprofit organization that spearheaded a large voter registration drive in advance of the 2024 election because of worries about noncitizen voting.
Tasked with registering patients to vote, Vot-ER is a nonprofit that works with public health clinics and receives funding from left-wing dark money groups. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) issued a letter to Vot-ER on Tuesday. The congressman wrote a message to the CEO of Epic, a healthcare software business allegedly involved in Vot-ER’s operations, as well as Aliya Bhatia, the left-wing activist who directs Vot-ER.
In his letter to Bhatia and Faulkner, Roy stated, “I write today with concerns regarding cooperative voter registration activities performed by your separate groups.” “Specifically, I write to question what the procedures your groups are doing to guarantee non-citizens do not register to vote under your combined effort, since evidence of non-citizens having unlawfully registered to vote in federal elections rises around the nation.”
Alister Martin, a doctor and former advisor to VP Kamala Harris, established Vot-ER. Vot-ER did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
According to the Washington Examiner, Vot-ER staff members attended a 2021 meeting with the Department of Justice, the Executive Office of the President, and other departments to discuss how to carry out an executive order that President Biden signed that gave agencies additional resources for voter registration. Republican politicians and conservative legal experts claim that the directive is unlawful.
“Epic, the Health Record software system that has over 305 million patients throughout the country, now offers voter registration options for all users,” said an earlier this year Vot-ER news release that Roy’s letter referenced. Furthermore, the Texas Republican referenced a document from Epic Systems that his office was able to receive that stated healthcare practitioners utilizing Epic’s services may use Vot-ER technologies “by employing a link that refers patients to a nonpartisan app where they can register to vote.”
In his letter, Roy noted that healthcare providers should take no action “to guarantee non-citizens do not improperly register to vote in elections,” as stated in the papers his agency collected.
In May, The Washington Examiner published a story stating that independent organizations tasked with carrying out Biden’s voter registration mandate recommended enrolling undocumented immigrants. Vot-ER has posted videos on YouTube that explain “what to do if your patient reveals that they are undocumented,” according to the May article.
This is especially concerning, according to Roy, because the border issue has put pressure on several hospital systems around the country as a result of an increase in the number of undocumented immigrants seeking care, especially in emergency departments.
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