Foreclosure and Voting

Michele Lerner at HSH.com speculates about the effect the voters displaced by the current foreclosure environment will have on the election:

In every state, voter registration is tied to residency, but states vary in how a voter must establish their residency and re-register to vote. With some 1.3 million homes in some stage of foreclosure as of August 2012 and with approximately 3.8 million foreclosures already complete since September 2008, according to the market research firm CoreLogic, foreclosures could keep hundreds of thousands of voters away from the polls this November.

Foreclosures expected to deter thousands of voters via HSH.com