As Homes Are Lost, Fears That Votes Will Be, Too

[babsbunny]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/us/politics/25voting.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=foreclosure&st=cse&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

By IAN URBINA
Published: September 24, 2008

More than a million people have lost their homes through foreclosure in the last two years, and many of them are still registered to vote at the address of the home they lost. Now election officials and voting rights groups are struggling to prevent thousands of them from losing their vote when they go to the polls in November.


Many of these voters will be disqualified at the polls because, in the tumult of their foreclosure, they neglected to tell their election board of their new address. Some could be forced to vote with a provisional ballot or challenged by partisan poll watchers, a particular concern among Democrats who fear that poor voters will be singled out. That could add confusion and stretch out lines that are already expected to be long because of unprecedented turnout.

Federal election officials say they are concerned that voters are not being properly informed of how to update their addresses.

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1. Not to mention all the homeless people who don't have an address to match that on their

picture I.D.

Thanks, America.



:P

[Trillo]

2. Good point. n/t

[varelse]

3. Could this by the real reason that foreclosure protections for American voters are "off the table"

Republicans must know that if those most affected by economic are able to vote, they're likely to vote *Democratic*, so it'd make sense for them to balk at including foreclosure protections or mortgage assistance in this bailout bill. But then why would the Democrats concede this to them?