Few change voting address after storm
"Sometimes homeless people vote, too," said Secretary of State
Voting wasn't the first thing on many residents' minds on
So far, few are making their change of address official, at least for voting purposes.
"We've had only a couple of people who came in to change their place of residence," said
Legally, a person may not need a home to vote -- but in practice, an address can often matter quite a lot. Candidates sometimes question whether their opponents live in the district they're running in, a difficult charge to prove. A voter's address determines their polling place, and
On
"If your home is no longer habitable but you're still registered in that place, that's where you're registered," Lorenzo said.
Merrill said that once someone establishes a permanent residence elsewhere, they need to change their registration.
Still, what "permanent residence" means for
"Their last place of residence would be where they're registered," he said.
If there are questions about where a voter lives, Lorenzo said, that voter will be given a provisional ballot, and state officials can determine later whether the ballot is valid.
Questions of voter residency often come up only after a candidate challenges an election result. Merrill said he's never seen a candidate challenge the vote in a precinct because of voters displaced by a disaster.
The last day to register to vote in the primary election is
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