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...These turnout percentages will be lowest in the Latino community. Ironically, this demographic group stands the most to gain by participation in politics. Voter participation could empower the government to address these chronic problems in the Latino community--the highest unemployment rate, lowest per capita income, highest infant mortality rate and lowest high school graduation rate...
...similarly lackluster California gubernatorial primary fight in June nonetheless yielded an extraordinary turnout of Latino voters on election day. Propelled in large part by the controversial Proposition 227 referendum on bilingual education, the Latino vote was up a whopping 50 percent over the gubernatorial primary only four years before when the equally distasteful anti-immigrant Proposition 187 came before the state's voters...
What happened between 1994 and 1998 in California? Analysts are quick to point to the politicizing effects of these propositions as reasons for the dramatic increase in turnout. The impact, they claim, was to motivate the Latino community--getting it roused, getting it registered and then, most dramatically, getting it to the polls on Election...
...turnout in this year's election represented an increase over last year when only 18 percent of the class voted...
...event drew almost twice as many participants as least year, when about 75 students participated, according to David J. Malan '99, a coordinator of the Frosh Intramural Program. Malan said the increased turnout was due in part to better publicity...