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Originally Posted by Corkey

Real homeless have no access to shelters, and what checks are you talking about, welfare? In most states men don't qualify for welfare. Shelters that I know of have a first come first served and no one stays more than over night. They don't have access to a post office box, and the voters registrars office will not accept a po box as an address. Here we have homeless who in the cold weather have access to a warming shelter that only opens up during extreme cold snaps. The US government will not send ssoc checks to a shelter, no matter who's in it.

That may be true for your state Corkey but in NC one can most certainly use a homeless shelter as an address, maintain their right to vote and to receive correspondance from companies that may be interested in hiring them. Not all states declare the homeless cannot vote, I'm pretty sure there are no laws stipulating as such as because they are still citizens of the USA and have a constitutional right to vote.

Oh, and there are homeless who do receive a state stipend, it just isn't enough to put a roof over their head.