Friday, April 19, 2024

Voter Registration Drive Promises to Register Millions of Latinos

U.S. Hispanic activists laid out plans on Friday to register 2 million new Latino voters to boost the clout of the United States’ fastest-growing voter bloc in the November presidential election.

Organizers representing more than 100 grass-roots Hispanic organizations from a dozen states met in Los Angeles to fine-tune a drive to get Latinos to sign up and vote in the November 4 election.

Hispanics account for about 9 percent of the U.S. electorate and are the nation’s fastest growing minority group. They could be a critical swing voting bloc in battleground states like Florida and those in the Southwest.

Read More: Reuters