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The Skid Row vote cries out for investigation

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Nearly 1,200 people registered to vote at a homeless shelter on Skid Row with 132 beds.

185 people registered at a homeless drop-in center — with no beds at all.

That is likely illegal, and it is likely a key to the story of how socialist City Councilmember Nithya Raman overtook Palisades Fire victim Spencer Pratt for second place in the LA mayoral race.

Under California law, homeless people can register to vote, even though they do not have a fixed residence. They can use their last fixed address as their voting domicile; they can even specify a geographic location, as long as it is where they live, or where they intend to return.

If they do not return there within a year, it is no longer their voting domicile. If they move to another location without the intent to return to the first one, they have to re-register — unless it is already within 14 days of the next election. 

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They can use a business address — like a homeless shelter — as their address, but only as long as they also intend to reside........

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