Lose Your Home, Keep Your Vote: How To Protect Voters Caught Up In Foreclosure
Fair Elections Legal Network (FELN) has released a new, comprehensive report on how the foreclosure crisis could threaten voters in 2010 if Secretaries of State do not act aggressively to protect the voting rights of persons forced from foreclosed homes. With an estimated 3.1 million foreclosure filings expected in 2010, and nearly two voting age adults on average per household, foreclosure could affect millions of voters this year.
In Lose Your Home, Keep Your Vote: How to Protect Voters Caught Up in Foreclosure, FELN identifies potential voting problems people in foreclosure could face and lays out what can be done by voters and election officials to protect their vote. Foreclosure can affect voting by forcing pre-election changes to a voter’s residence, making it difficult for displaced homeowners to demonstrate their new residence to registrars with current identification, and trapping voters in transition with state-imposed registration deadlines.
The report provides state-by-state data on foreclosures, and a detailed 50-state Appendix that provides foreclosure timelines, voting residency rules, and other information to election officials and voters.
Click here for the full report, Lose Your Home, Keep Your Vote: How to Protect Voters Caught Up in Foreclosure.
