California Forward
Although it’s been a few weeks since voters in Los Angeles cast their ballots, it’s still mind-boggling only 19 percent of registered voters actually voted.
read moreAs part of our involvement with the Future of California Elections (FOCE), we attended their event in January and were able to ask State Sen. Alex Padilla (D – Los Angeles) about his views on some vital topics on the FOCE’s agenda
read moreTo find out what is depressing voter turnout statewide and among Latinos in particular, the University of Southern California (USC) and the Los Angeles Times polled 500 registered voters on LA’s recent mayoral primary
read moreThat’s right, just one of 18 elected officials in Los Angeles will be a woman, despite women accounting for slightly more than 50 percent (!) of the population.
read moreMore Latinos are registered to vote in California and they are less likely to be Democrats than in years past. However, most eligible Latinos don’t vote.
read moreLos Angeles mayoral race may have had the lowest turnout since ’30s.
read moreSecretary of State Debra Bowen has designated the state’s new Health Benefit Exchange, Covered California, as a voter registration agency under the National Voters Registration Act (NVRA)
read moreThere are 1.5 million Filipinos living in the Golden State with half living in the greater Los Angeles region. San Diego and Santa Clara counties also have large Filipino American communities.
read moreWe are near the bottom in both voter registration and voter participation. The state has less than two-thirds (65.6 percent) of our voting age citizen population registered, which ranks 45th.
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