Prominent Latino Organizations to Mobilize and Assist Latinos at the Polls on Election Day

“The nation’s leading Latino leadership organization, the NALEO Educational Fund (NALEO-EF), has joined with the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., to help inform, engage, and mobilize Latino voters. This 2006 voter education and mobilization effort is an unprecedented partnership between the nation’s premier Latino organizations, prominent community leaders, and Univision Communications, the country’s largest Latino media company, to mobilize the Latino community for the midterm elections on November 7. The effort’s centerpiece is a toll-free hotline to assist Latino voters with the voting process.

Lack of access to accurate and timely information is a key barrier to voter participation in the Latino community. To address that barrier, NCLR is partnering with NALEO-EF to staff a toll-free hotline 1-888-Ve-Y-Vota (1-888-839-8682) with call centers in Washington, DC and Los Angeles. From 6:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. (EST) on Election Day, more than 40 trained live bilingual operators will help voters locate polling places and ensure that their rights are protected. Since 2004, the NALEO-EF hotline has helped more than 15,000 Latino voters nationwide, providing information on registration, absentee voting, and general sample ballot questions.

On the ground, NALEO-EF will monitor polling places in established and emerging Latino communities such as Anaheim, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Santa Ana in California; Houston, Texas; and New York City. Nearly one hundred monitors will visit polling places throughout these communities to help ensure that polling places are accessible and that eligible voters are treated fairly. NCLR helped train local groups who will be monitoring polls in Delaware, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.”

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