If you're living in Michigan and your home has been foreclosed, the Michigan Messenger says you can expect to run into some trouble at the voting booth, courtesy of the state's GOP. The party leaders have a list of home foreclosures and plan to challenge voters registered under these addresses.
Challenging all voters registered to foreclosed homes could disrupt some polling places, especially in the Detroit metropolitan area. According to the real estate Web site RealtyTrac, one in every 176 households in Wayne County, metropolitan Detroit, received a foreclosure filing during the month of July. In Macomb County, the figure was one household in every 285, meaning that 1,834 homeowners received the bad news in just one month. The Macomb County foreclosure rate puts it in the top three percent of all U.S. counties in the number of distressed homeowners. Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Kent and Genessee counties were — in that order — the counties with the most homeowners facing foreclosure, according to RealtyTrac. As of July, there were more than 62,000 foreclosure filings in the entire state.
I can't find the states on race and foreclosures on Michigan, but since foreclosures are disproportionately affecting blacks and Latinos across the country, it couldn't be much different in Michigan. It's a key swing state, where every vote will count. Unless your home has been foreclosed, and then it looks like you're on your own.
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Republican conspiracy to keep executive power? No! Why of course not! Those with homes in foreclosure *aren't* a threat to their plans. ESPECIALLY not in swing states!
I officially give up on following news in the country until Nov 5th when I will (likely) peek from beneath my comforter then scoff and put the pillow back over my head.
Yep - Wayne, Oakland, and Kent counties have some of the largest percentages of minorities in the state, very diverse neighborhoods.
I could play conspiracy theorist and say that they won't attack Macomb County - people living there tend to vote Republican.
Just for your confirmation, Lauren.
This is outrageous. And if it happens in Michigan, it will certainly happen in other states.
We must fight back. Progressive Future has a great action page posted where you can write to Michigan's Secretary of State, Terri Lynne Land, and tell her that this kind of interference with the basic right to vote is unacceptable, and that you expect her to say so—publicly. Just click here.
Updated to add in the link (since it didn't post). URL for the action page is:
https://www.progressivefuture.org/michigan.
When the President announces that the economy is in the worst disaster since the 1920 depression, and bails out Bear Stearns and the AIG, we as a people can stop harassing the real victims in the predatory banking schemes. Verified addresses or not, if you are registered to vote, and you vote at your local registered precinct, that should be enough, and has historically always been enough. Obama has been enjoined in the lawsuit to protect likely Democrats from suppression of vote by the GOP. The GOP is getting rather used to just cheating to get in. It is becoming a habit and needs to be halted.