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Augiedog

(2,551 posts)
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 10:12 AM Aug 2020

Think about this: if your homeless how can you vote? The repukes have used this tactic before.

They use it against native Americans because of the nature of street addresses on reservation lands. This is one of the reasons the Senate went home without dealing with the economics of the pandemic. They want as many people evicted and homeless as possible for vote suppression. Psychologically too, who has voting at the top of their concerns when they and their families are homeless, hungry and out of work?

Even if you somehow get a mail in ballot, you can’t claim an address if your are homeless. Same issue if you show up at the polls.

As cruel a calculation as this seems, it’s nothing compared to what the repukes are prepared to do. They have become the criminal enterprise trump needs them to be.

Ultimately this entire effort is to maintain not only power but most especially privilege. White Power and privilege.

Not matter what it may cost them they will do anything, including kill, to save their perceived right to privilege. They see their end coming and like a trapped animal they will lash out and strike at anything they see as threatening.

It’s only going to get worse as we near November 3.

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Think about this: if your homeless how can you vote? The repukes have used this tactic before. (Original Post) Augiedog Aug 2020 OP
In my state, and I suspect several others... 2naSalit Aug 2020 #1

2naSalit

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1. In my state, and I suspect several others...
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 10:57 AM
Aug 2020

You can still vote using the address from the last election and you have a year to offer an address change. Also, there is a statewide NGO for housing issues that offers mail receiver services and you can use their address for such things as voter registration.

As long as your paperwork/ID shows an address, you can still use that since you don't register as homeless anywhere to show you no longer live at that address.

I have had friends offer to let me use their address for mail and receiving my ballots while I was homeless. I chose to use the NGO's mail service as it was a physical address and I didn't have to trouble my friends for my mail.

People in that situation would do well to look into what the rules are in their state.



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