The Federal Register of Elections in Mexico (Registro Federal de Electores, RFE) has registered 26,223 more citizens for upcoming elections in the three Ciudad Juarez districts; 5 percent more than were registered to vote in local elections last year.
District 3 has seen an increase of 5,843 new voters, District 4 an increase of 10,742 new voters and in District 8 there were 9,638 new voters added. In the ten districts throughout the state of Chihuahua, there have been a total of 58,584 new voters registered for upcoming elections.
In the U.S. more than 6 million Latinos are registered to vote in the presidential elections to be held on November 5, an increase of approximately a million new voters. In California alone, more than 2.1 million Latinos have registered to vote, up from 1.5 million in 1992. Texas has seen an increase in Latino registrations from 1.2 million in 1992 to 1.6 million in 1996. California and Texas account for more than two-thirds of the total Latino vote in the United States.
Sources: Diario de Juarez, Associated Press