VA Now Allows Voter Registration Drives, But Will Its New Policy Help
Vets in 2008?

By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. Posted September 9, 2008.

With Senate pressure looming, Veterans Affairs issues a new policy
after barring voter drives for most of the 2008 voter registration
season.

For the fourth time in six months, the Department of Veterans Affairs
has revised its policy on allowing voter registration drives at
hundreds of VA facilities serving injured and homeless veterans.
Monday's announcement, on the eve of Senate hearings, said the agency
would allow voter registration drives if certain conditions were met.

"The Department will welcome state and local election officials and
non-partisan groups to its hospitals and outpatient clinics to assist
VA officials in registering voters," the VA said in a Sept. 8 news
release. "Such assistance, however, must be coordinated by those
facilities in order to avoid disruptions in patient care."