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Analysis: Foreclosure Crisis Snarls Clinton, Sanders' Efforts to Reach Nevada Voters

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Democratic presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are flooding Nevada with volunteers ahead of this week's key nominating contest but they face a problem — the addresses, phone numbers and other personal data they need to reach many voters are out of date, according to a Reuters analysis yesterday. Nevada, which is more than a quarter Latino, was one of the states worst affected by the 2008 financial meltdown, with hundreds of thousands of families unable to pay their mortgages and forced to move in a crisis that by some estimates hit minorities twice as hard as whites. The foreclosed homes often switched hands multiple times — from homeowner to bank to investor and back to another homeowner in just a few years. That has made it difficult to track voters who at some point lived in those homes.

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