A few things about voting while homeless in Georgia: it’s confusing. State legislators didn’t write voter registration laws thinking about people in homeless shelters and it’s not like there’s an FAQ for them on the Secretary of State’s website.

That said, of course Georgia residents who are homeless can vote. They can register to wherever they’re staying—a bridge, a park, a shelter. They just need to make sure they have a mailing address somewhere, like a homeless service provider, to get voter mail.

But the reality is, few people who are homeless do vote. At one point, we found less than 10 percent of people registered to a service provider in Atlanta voted over three years, from 2016-2019. We’re talking 500 voters total--not often an election-swinging amount.