Latino voter group reports registering more than 100,000 new voters
One of the nation's largest Latino civic groups claims that it has helped register more than 100,000 new voters, a key milestone announced as voter registration deadlines are nearing in several states.
Voto Latino, a nonpartisan, mostly online-based voter registration group, says it helped compile 101,720 new voter registrations between November 2015 and last weekend, topping registration rates from previous presidential election years. In the past few weeks, the group says it has been assisting more than 5,000 people register per day, exceeding a 3,000-per day goal.
Voto Latino's figures are impossible to independently verify — and don't necessarily mean that the group has helped register more than 100,000 new Hispanic voters. Tracking a voter's ethnicity won't be possible until voter files can be reviewed after November's election. There is also no national way to track how many voters are registering ahead of November's elections,
but several nonpartisan civic groups that focus on registering Latino voters, including National Council of La Raza and Mi Familia Vota, have reported in recent days modest increases in signups compared to four years ago.
Voto Latino uses its website and a network of hundreds of partners across the country — including independent bloggers, Hollywood actors, the Spotify music-streaming service and popular Spanish-language rock bands — to encourage Hispanics to vote, primarily by using its VoterPal app.
The group's top four states for registrations were Texas (20,483 new voters), California (13,394), Florida (10,565) and North Carolina (6,297). Just 2 percent of the Tar Heel State's registered voters are Hispanic, roughly 135,000 out of more than 6.4 million as of February, according to the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.
While small, the North Carolina numbers are notable, because it trumped states with larger Latino populations, including Arizona, Colorado and Nevada, where Latino political activism is more pronounced. The uptick in North Carolina is partly because of an increased rate of Internet searches for voter registration information, the group said.
Democrats have focused this year on registering small, but growing percentages of Latinos in several states, including North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Wisconsin, believing that they could make the difference in close races, especially in the presidential race.
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Rise my people rise and not social media/apps saving the day
Game recognizes game I guess.
