By Lucy Kang, KALW/Crosscurrents
Lisa Galinas and Laura Sinai are sitting at a folding table with stacks of voter registration cards near the intersection of Turk and Hyde in San Francisco, registering people in the Tenderloin to vote.
In this precinct, fewer than half of residents turned out to vote in the June primaries. That drops to 32 percent in the next precinct over, compared to nearly 60 percent in the city overall.
The Tenderloin is well known for its vast street population. San Francisco’s District 6 – the Tenderloin and SOMA – is where the majority of the city’s unsheltered homeless people stay, based on the most recent homeless count in 2015. It’s also where they can vote.
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