Television shows target Latino voters

The Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials is teaming up with a local Spanish-language television station to educate Latino voters about the upcoming national election. On Saturday, Univision 34 will premier the first of three episodes of its community affairs show "Nuestra Georgia" to the election. All three shows will be nonpartisan and focus on educating the state's Latino electorate about the voting process and the positions of the two candidates. Experts estimate there are about100,000 Latino voters registered in Georgia, and another 100,000 eligible Latinos who are not registered.

GA Latino group seeks voters

The Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials is ramping up an Hispanic voter-registration drive aimed at upcoming 2008 elections.

Jerry Gonzalez, GALEO executive director told reporters:

"We are actively registering voters from now until October 2008," said "We started it early because of municipal elections, plus the presidential primary in February."

GALEO estimates that there are some 70,000 Latino voters statewide, and another 20,000 who will reach voting age by the 2008 elections, according to a report appearing in the Gainesville Times.

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