Vot-ER Badge User Guide
👋 Welcome to the Vot-ER badge user guide!

By using the Vot-ER badge in your daily practice, you can help your patients prepare for each and every opportunity to advocate for their health at the ballot box.
To get started, watch the 4-minute training video, explore our conversation starters, and review our legal guidance and FAQs.
(In case you have found your way here but don't have a badge yet, you can order your free Vot-ER badge here.)
Training Video
Conversation Starters
FAQs & Legal Guidelines
You can say, "Once you scan my badge, there will be an option at the bottom of the page to text an expert with your questions—feel free to use the hotline, they would love to hear from you."
To be eligible to register to vote patients must be:
- a citizen of the United States(residents in all 50 states eligible)
- 18 years old on or before the next election
- not be currently incarcerated for a felony conviction
You can send an email to the VotER team at: contactvot.er@gmail.com Please send a description of the problem. A picture of the issue on screen helps but is not necessary.
There is no good answer or any accurate source that doesn’t have a bias outside of the party websites. You could mention the names of the current nominees for political office and their party, but go no further. Do the same as you would do when asked about who you support and tell them to ask a friend or go to the political party official websites.
You can only answer simple facts like what party they are in, if they’re an incumbent or challenger or where they live. Don’t state your preferences.
Remind them that as a hospital employee, you must be nonpartisan. Your options are:
- Encourage the person to talk to a friend or family member they trust and share values with.
- Direct the person to nonpartisan online tools provided by Non-Profit VOTE’s Voting In Your State: 50 State Guide that gives patients voter info.
- Closer to the election, you can link them to online tools that let voters know what’s on their ballot by directing them to Google “What’s on (my state) ballot?
You can provide information about how VotER can be used to request a mail in ballot. You can bring up voter registration. You can also refer patients to the voter registration tools
if they ask about how to register to vote or are curious about the process. In these cases you can respond:
"The platform will guide you through step by step."