Implode-o-Meter News - Poverty, foreclosures make get-out-the-vote effort difficult

``Canvassers found only 31% of their targets. "Twice that number were confirmed to no longer live at the address on file - either because a structure was abandoned or condemned, or if a current resident reported that the targeted voter no longer lived there," the magazine reported.
Slate reported that the New Organizing Institute analyzed those results and determined that nearly 160,000 African-American voters in Milwaukee were "no longer reachable at their last documented address."

If true, that represents a stunning number of potential voters.''

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Poverty, foreclosures make get-out-the-vote effort difficult