How Underwater Voters Could Dampen Turnout, Influence Election

DENVER -- The house across the street was the first on her block to go dark. The woman who had lived there for years -- a registered nurse with a solid job -- saw the interest rate on her mortgage surge higher, lifting her payments beyond her means. She fell into foreclosure, relinquishing her home to the waist-high weeds that soon enshrouded it.

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