Group to register young Latinos to vote through text messages

“Text messaging worked so well in rallying young Hispanics to immigration protests this spring that political activists want to apply the technology elsewhere: registering those young people to vote.

The message is a simple one, said Maria Teresa Petersen, executive director of Voto Latino, which plans to register at least 35,000 young Hispanics nationwide through the text message initiative.

“You’ve marched,” she said. “Now you’ve got to register and now you’ve got to vote.”"

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