We are all too familiar with the gap that exists between who lives in our great city and who votes. The “have mores” make up a large share of the likely voters in Bakersfield and California in general while the “have nots” generally either are not registered to vote or rarely vote.
By targeting unlikely and new voters we have been able to successfully increase voter turn out. This increase in voter turn comes from lower earners who feel a “pinch” a bit more and are more receptive to our issues and message.
As part of this effort we plan to register 250,000 new voters in Los Angeles County. This plan represents the next phase of our efforts effort. We have already registered over 50,000 new voters in the communities of the San Gabriel Valley and surrounding LAX Airport. We are extremely proud of the close to 2,000 in the cities of Lynwood and also 10,000 in the city of Los Angeles and close to 3,000 in the cities of Hawthorne, Inglewood and Lawndale.
But yet, there are close to 900,000 unregistered Latinos in Los Angeles County. Registering these folks and getting them to vote will change the landscape of not just congressional, state and County races but also make local City Councils and school boards deal with the issues of an additional million working class, immigrant voters.
Over the next five years we must build a powerful coalition to register 1,000,000 new voters in California. As part of this effort we plan to register 25,000 new voters in Kern County.
We will recruit and train a cadre of organizers who are efficiently skilled at registering new voters. The process for organizing this effort will also prepare us for an expanded SOL network that is skilled and familiar with our grass roots approach to political organizing. For more information contact Patty at
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Graph that shows LA voter reg possibilities.
