“A record-breaking 2.3 million new voters have registered” since the start of the year in California alone, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. “Roughly two-thirds of them are under 35 and 26 percent are Latino, according to Paul Mitchell, vice president of Political Data Inc., which does a running tally of voter registration. Nevertheless, so far, only about 10 percent of those new voters have cast early ballots. Only 1 in 8 of early voters have been Latino, leading some — like Mitchell — to wonder what to make of this registration surge. ‘The question on Tuesday is who turns out and whether that enthusiasm to register is reflected in enthusiasm to vote,’ Mitchell said. ‘Or was registering just a cathartic exercise in reaction to what they’re seeing happening, and that is where it stops.”
Mi Familia Vota is aiming to register 33,000 people in Florida and expects 15,000 to 17,000 of those individuals will be Puerto Rican, said Esteban Garces, the organization’s Florida state director.
Mi Familia Vota has about 40 people in the field statewide, working 25 to 30 hours a week. Four of them were stationed outside the Unidos Supermarket one afternoon last week …show more content…
There are over 1 million of them in Florida; more than double the number 14 years ago, and thousands more arrive each month, fleeing the fallout of a debt crisis back home. The Orlando region, including Kissimmee, has the largest Puerto Rican population in the state. Puerto Rico has far higher voter turnout than the 50 states ― and as U.S. citizens, they are eligible to vote on the mainland as soon as they resettle here. The Puerto Rican population in Florida has increased 110 percent since 2000, a rate that could put them on track to be the largest Latino-origin group in the state, according to the Pew Research Center. And as they grow in numbers, they could change Florida politics
Mi Familia Vota is aiming to register 33,000 people in Florida and expects 15,000 to 17,000 of those individuals will be Puerto Rican, said Esteban Garces, the organization’s Florida state director.
Mi Familia Vota has about 40 people in the field statewide, working 25 to 30 hours a week. Four of them were stationed outside the Unidos Supermarket one afternoon last week …show more content…
There are over 1 million of them in Florida; more than double the number 14 years ago, and thousands more arrive each month, fleeing the fallout of a debt crisis back home. The Orlando region, including Kissimmee, has the largest Puerto Rican population in the state. Puerto Rico has far higher voter turnout than the 50 states ― and as U.S. citizens, they are eligible to vote on the mainland as soon as they resettle here. The Puerto Rican population in Florida has increased 110 percent since 2000, a rate that could put them on track to be the largest Latino-origin group in the state, according to the Pew Research Center. And as they grow in numbers, they could change Florida politics