Growth Potential for Latino Voting Population Detailed
As Texas readies for a summer battle against the U.S. Department of Justice over the state’s voter ID law, Latinos — who opponents of the law say will be most affected — have the potential to increase the state’s voter rolls by more than 2 million people, a new report says.
About 2.15 million voting-age Latinos in Texas who are U.S. citizens are not registered to cast a ballot, according to a report released by the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based policy research and educational institute. The left-leaning organization also posits that about 880,000 legal ...
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Michael McPhail via Texas Tribune on Facebook
A better question is who is going to turn out the ones who are already registered to vote? That has always been the problem.
Cristina Parker via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The answer is yes we are!
David Spratt
Ironic that most of the same people who now advocate for peoples right to vote without having to show an ID and prove who you really are were the same ones who argued for illegal aliens rights to obtain a drivers license. Go figure?
Rudy Gonzales
McPhail is right - How can we get everyone to get out and vote for the candidate of your choice? Texas' "Voter ID Law" has the potential to squelch minority or people of color from voting. Not everyone in Texas or any other state have access or the ability to receive a voter ID certificate, and How would that be implemented for absentee or mail-in ballots? The state, and all other states, should make available abilities or procedures to implement "Voter ID Certifications" for everyone, even those in a nursing home who wish to vote. There is a concerted effort to squelch voter rights and privileges won or gained during the 50's and 60's. Throwing out "Election Fraud" in this cause strikes me as redundant given the actions of More than a dozen states, run by Tactical Egotistical Antagonist(TEA) party members, have enacted new voting restrictions, including eight — Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin — that passed variations of a rule requiring photo identification. Idaho and Oklahoma passed similar legislation in 2010, as did Utah in 2009. In 2008 New Mexico pass this legislation. Ohio and Georgia passed voter restrictions in 2006 while Missouri tightened their voter laws. In 2003, Voter ID laws passed in Alabama, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota where the Republican Party was in charge. Fourteen states dominated by the TEA-GOP-Republican Party have changed the rules for voters since President Obama was elected into office. Here is a good example of the tactics the TEA party portion of the TEA-Republicans which points to the express notion that they are bigoted, prejudiced and discriminatory in their functions. The Hispanic/Latino voting block will have tremendous influence in the future and if courted properly could be one very potent Socio-Politco-Economic group in future elections and economies.
Another 99%
If 2 million more people voted in Texas, there would not be any Abbotts, Perry's, or Cronyn's in our government. They would be flipping burgers somewhere. They have no heart for leadership in America,. they have no heart for Freedom, and intelligence.