{"id":5389,"date":"2016-07-15T18:52:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T18:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=5389"},"modified":"2016-07-15T18:52:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T18:52:30","slug":"smartphone-app-aims-to-boost-latino-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=5389","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone App Aims to Boost Latino Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new smartphone app from Feet in 2 Worlds is designed to inform young Latinos and help get them to polls on Election Day. Photo: iStockphoto<\/p><\/div>\n

by Mark Richardson<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

SAN ANTONIO, Texas<\/strong> \u2013 Immigrants have a lot at stake in this year\u2019s presidential campaign, and a new smartphone app aims to help get out the vote on Election Day. Voter turnout will be critical this year, but traditionally fewer Latino voters, especially Latino youth, have gone to the polls than other groups.<\/p>\n

John Rudolph, executive producer with the public radio organization Feet in 2 Worlds<\/a>, hopes this free iPhone app will make a difference.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Unidos app is designed to engage young Latinos to give them information that they need to register to vote and become informed voters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Latinos are the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population, but Rudolph said a recent Washington Post\/ABC News poll shows that differences in voter turnout are significant.<\/p>\n

\u201cForty-four percent of Hispanics said they were likely to vote in the November election, which compares to 70 percent of whites who say that they\u2019re going to vote,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

That difference could be enough to sway the election results in many districts.<\/p>\n

The difficulty in engaging young voters is nothing new, and there are other efforts under way to try to motivate them to vote. Rudolph said the Unidos app is using a mix of news and useful information combined with shareable content such as emojis in Spanish and English.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019re hoping that by using the language of smartphones, that we\u2019ll be able to engage an audience that a lot of people have been scratching their heads over how to reach for many years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Rudolph points out that the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, and that court\u2019s recent immigration ruling, is just one example of the importance this election will have for the Latino community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Mark Richardson SAN ANTONIO, Texas \u2013 Immigrants have a lot at stake in this year\u2019s presidential campaign, and a new smartphone app aims to help get out the vote on Election Day. Voter turnout will be critical this year, but traditionally fewer Latino voters, especially Latino youth, have gone to the polls than other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5390,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions\/5390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}