Do you have any thoughts as to whether the refugees voted in local elections where they were housed?
"Do you have any thoughts as to whether the refugees voted in local elections where they were housed?"
It appears the evacuees were to be granted absentee ballot status for their home districts.
"FEMA will mail out, on behalf of the SoS Ater's office, a flyer informing applicants of their basic voting right with regard to participating in elections scheduled in communities from which they are temporarily displaced."
http://www.sec.state.la.us/admin/press/p110905.pdf
"SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Displaced Citizens Voter Protection Act of 2005'."
"SEC. 2. APPLICABILITY OF PROTECTIONS FOR ABSENT MILITARY AND OVERSEAS VOTERS TO KATRINA EVACUEES."
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.3734:
"Lack of voters in Feb. worry activists
Displaced citizens politically detached
Sunday, November 20, 2005"
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-11/113247392075600.xml