Faith Groups and Election Turnout

There's a nice article yesterday at the Religion News Service about the efforts that religious groups are making to increase voter turnout.  See article here.  These efforts come from religious groups on both sides of the political spectrum.

Religious groups and political activism have gone together for centuries in the USA.  This should not be too surprising when you remember that religious groups in the USA are collective action machines.  In theory, once they have solved their own collective action problems associated with religious production, they can branch out into other forms of collective action, including political activism.