Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Local homeless advocacy groups will participate this summer in the first nationwide effort to register homeless people to vote, homeless activists said yesterday...
...campaign, which is being led by the National Coalition for the Homeless, hopes to inform this largely ignored population of its voting rights, Leah D. Mahan of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless said yesterday...
...estimate is that there are up to three million homeless people in the U.S.," Mahan said. "A lot of [them] don't know they can vote...
Under Massachusetts law, anyone with an address can vote, Mahan said. Since homeless people are permitted to use the address of a shelter or a former residence, they can legally cast ballots in November...
...homeless are a particularly difficult group to involve in politics, according to Dick Doyle, co-director of the Homeless Civil Rights Project, a group which will work with the coalition on the campaign...