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According to a new study by the California HealthCare Foundation, since 1994 approximately 1.2 million Hispanics have registered to vote in California. This represents half of the Hispanic voting base in the state. Interestingly, one-half of these new voters are immigrants, meaning that one-quarter of the voting Hispanics in California are originally from another country. The 2.4 million Hispanics who are now registered to vote represent 16% of the electorate in the state. The primary impetus for this surge in voter registration was Proposition 187, which sought to strictly curtail undocumented immigration to California. Proposition 187 was a Republican initiative, and statistics indicate that the recently registered Hispanic voters remember this. Fifty-eight percent were registered Democrats, 22% Republican, and 20% independents. The 2.4 million registered Hispanic voters are only 39% of the state’s total Hispanic population. According to the California HealthCare Foundation, of those who were not registered, two-thirds said it was because they were not eligible and one-third simply had not registered.
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