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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow do homeless people vote?
Facing millions of evictions in the near future, and the end of enhanced UI leading to more foreclosures and evictions, how many people will be put out into the streets between now and Nov 1?
Is this the Repub voter suppression strategy this year? With that many displaced persons, will the Repubs have to fuck with the voting machines?
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)It is recommended homeless registrants list a shelter address as their voting address where they could receive mail. Alternatively, homeless registrants may denote a street corner or a park as their residence, in lieu of a traditional home address. The federal voter registration form and many state forms provide a space for this purpose.
https://www.nonprofitvote.org/voting-in-your-state/special-circumstances/voting-and-homelessness/
Wounded Bear
(58,437 posts)Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)All 50 states allow the use of a street corner, park, etc. as an address.
This doesn't suppress voting, it makes it possible.
(The same applies for attending school)
appalachiablue
(41,052 posts)people have one?
underpants
(182,273 posts)and brought ballots. Oregon votes by mail from what I understand. Ive read that social services or someone seeks out the homeless to make sure they vote.
Dan
(3,524 posts)Where they reside at a homeless shelter - that can be used.
There are some County organizations that allow the homeless to use their location/address as their address.
As long as you can establish that you reside within a County - and have a place that you can use as your address (authorized) - you can vote.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)don't vote.
As for the unfortunate people who were registered to vote, voted regularly, and become homeless between now and November, well they will still be able to vote in person. Getting a mailed ballot might be a bit trickier.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)A big problem also is lack of documentation a lot of homeless are missing.
2naSalit
(86,048 posts)I was encouraged to register to vote, the NGO helping me find housing and other needed services served as my mailing address so I could receive mail and still claim residency. Every time I got mail from a state agency, there was a voter registration form included. This is still the case. We have mail in voting statewide this year and in a normal year, a third of the state votes by mail.
We have a good governor who should become our next new Senator.