Mail-in balloting has just begun for a special election in Oregon's first congressional district. January 31st is "election day." Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in the district and now comprise 14% of residents. This piece looks at the likely impact of the Latino vote in the election and examines why Latinos are less likely to vote in general than others.
Mail-in balloting has just begun for a special election in Oregon's first congressional district. January 31st is "election day." Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in the district and now comprise 14% of residents. This piece looks at the likely impact of the Latino vote in the election and examines why Latinos are less likely to vote in general than others.
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AXX: (nat sound) Buenos tardes....music and crowd sound
TRX: On a clear winter night, about 75 Latinos gather at a church in Cornelius. They
hear Francisco Lopez, the executive director of the advocacy group Causa urge them to register and
vote in the upcoming election:
AXX: (Lopez) “Cuando hay son ciudadanos, hay que registrar......”
TRX: He tells them of the importance of the first district congressional race.
Oregon has nearly a half million Latinos—with about 110-thousand of them in the first district,
comprised of Washington, Columbia, Yamhill, and Clatsop Counties, and part of the city of Portland.
While the district is almost 14-percent Latino, in the last congressional election only 5-percent of the
votes cast were Latino votes. Pacific University political science professor Jim Moore says Latinos
tend not to be as engaged as others in statewide politic...
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