Posted on 11/03/2006 1:06:53 AM PST by CrawDaddyCA
WASHINGTON — "Today we march, tomorrow we vote" was the endless refrain as hundreds of thousands of Hispanics spilled onto the streets of Houston, Los Angeles and other cities last spring in protest of a House bill aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration.
But with Tuesday's election approaching, immigrant-rights activists are nowhere close to delivering on their vow to add a million or more Hispanics to voter rolls in Texas and across the United States.
"We won't be ready for this election, but we will be ready for the next one," said Maria Jimenez, special projects coordinator with the Central American Resource Center in Houston.
Hispanic voter registration kept pace with increases in total registration in some of the cities where massive immigration rallies took place. But the registration totals didn't spike the way activists hoped.
In Harris County, voter registrations since the start of the year by citizens with Spanish-sounding surnames grew 5.3 percent as overall registrations rose 3.6 percent, according to the registrar's office.
But because Hispanics represent a small share of the overall vote, the increase made only a fraction of a difference, with Spanish-sounding surnames now accounting for 14.7 percent of the county's 1,924,573 registered voters, up from 14.4 percent at the beginning of the year.
Elsewhere, elections officials report no major increases in Hispanic registration.
"I haven't seen anything relative to voter registration that is occurring as a result of the marches," said Milwaukee election commissioner Sue Edmond. Her comments were echoed by Danny Clayton, supervisor of voter registration in Dallas County.
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Inevitable...........
in 50 years it will be, catch who?
We will have all inter-mingled and then it will be a meritocricy............
when everyone is mocha-light.
Or it could be like the Bus-driver on Mars.......
He says "dark green in the back, light green in the front!"
If they are ever allowed to vote in our elections...I DEMAND that I be allowed to vote in Mexican Elections.
I would be happy with photo voter ID that shows prove of citizenship.
mañana! mañana!
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