Hispanic population growing, not voting. ILLINOIS Latino voter participation stagnant or decreasing

Posted on: March 20th, 2006
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“A large, and growing, Hispanic population in Illinois might not be flexing the electoral muscle that many might have expected.

While demographics show a surging Hispanic population, voter participation has been stagnant or decreasing.

In off-year elections — like the one this year, when a presidential race doesn’t draw extra voter interest — turnout has dropped. Four years ago, 57 percent of registered Hispanics voted, after a 68 percent turnout in 1998, according to census statistics compiled by the William C. Velasquez Institute, a public policy analysis group in Texas.”

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