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Dear Representative Alexander:

This office is in receipt of your opinion request in which you present the following issue for our review:

Can the homeless use a shelter center's address as their place of residence so that they are allowed to register to vote?

LSA-R.S. 18:101(A) and (B) states, in pertinent part:

A. (1) Every citizen of Louisiana who is least eighteen years of age or will attain that age on or before the next election, is an actual bona fide resident of this state, and the parish, municipality, if any, and precinct in which he offers to register as a voter, is not disfranchised,…