Election Day might bring another nasty surprise to foreclosure victims. More than a million Americans have lost their homes to foreclosure in the last two years. And if they haven’t updated their address in their voter registration records, they could face a hard time at the polls. This New York Times article lays out what one can imagine is a highly typical scenario:

Todd Haupt, a home builder, lost his home in Josephville, Mo., to foreclosure last year, and said he had since become much more interested in politics. But asked whether he had remembered to update his voter registration information when he moved into his parents’ home in St. Charles, Mo., Mr. Haupt, 33, paused silently. Is that required? he said. I had no idea.

I’ve moved three times in the past two years, he added. Keeping my voter registration information was not top on my mind because I figured it was all set already.

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Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield’s $10 million home in the Atlanta suburbs has been foreclosed on. The former Boxing Heavyweight Champion of the World has fallen on tough times at the age of 45, heralded by an advertisement in his local newspaper published this past Wednesday that told his estate - located on Evander Holyfield highway no less - will be auctioned off “at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash” at the Fayette County, Georgia courthouse July 1st.

Add to his mortgage troubles a mother of one of his children suing the boxer for child support and Utah based consulting company taking him to court under claims he failed to pay a half million dollar landscaping bill and it’s no wonder why Holyfield has been pining to make a comeback bid in the ring recently.

You can view Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield’s 109 room, 54,000 square foot mansion after the jump:

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