The Case of the Disappearing Black Voter

http://www.slate.com/blogs/victory_lab/2012/08/30/three_fifths_of_milwaukee_s_black_voters_have_vanished_without_a_trace_.html ^

[djone]

"...During those eight weeks, canvassers were able to successfully find and interact with only 31 percent 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. Based on those results, the New Organizing Institute, a Washington-based best-practices lab for lefty field operations, extrapolated that nearly 160,000 African-American voters in Milwaukee were no longer reachable at their last documented address —"That scraps any traditional GOTV planning — if six in ten people that you planned on talking to are not there,” says Biko Baker, executive director of the League of Young Voters."

[Mygirlsmom]

Oh they will show up on election day to vote.

At least twice.

[Molon Labbie]

Agreed, I see the same thing. Even in section 8 housing where they pay a small fraction of the rent, they still get kicked out on a regular basis, usually because of criminal or otherwise anti-social behavior.

Taxpayers would have an involuntary bowel movement if they knew how much money is spent on a two bedroom apartment in section eight...