On a recent weekday afternoon, more than 20 people filed into a line at a reception window on the bottom floor of Midtown Atlanta’s First Presbyterian Church. The crowd kept the five volunteers inside the small office busy checking IDs and searching for mail in the filing cabinets stacked along the back wall.
This is the church’s mailroom, one of the few places in Atlanta where people without an address can receive important documents, like state IDs, birth certificates or letters from their family and friends.
It’s also where hundreds of people who are homeless have been registered to vote.
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