Voto Latino Launches Voter Registration App

*Here’s something new. An app that scans your ID and automatically populates your voter registration form. That’s it, no more excuses. I want to get this app and use it to register as many people as I can. As far as I can tell it’s not ready to download, yet. Here’s the link anyway, so you can get it once it’s available.   VL


NBC_News_2013_logoBy Sharis Delgado, NBC Latino

AUSTIN, TX — At one of the foremost gatherings of tech-oriented, young and influential leaders, a Latino organization announced a new way to mobilize and ensure millennial voters’ participation.

At SXSW Interactive, Voto Latino announced the launch of a new downloadable Apple application, VoterPal, allowing people to scan their ID to register to vote. The online fields automatically populate, followed by a confirmation email sent in a matter of seconds, cutting down the time from the usual paper registration process.

“So when we’re trying to figure on how to franchise the next group of Americans, we have to figure out where they are, how they talk, and more importantly, we have to use the technology that they crave,” said Voto Latino CEO and PresidentMaria Teresa Kumar in her opening remarks for the panel “Swipe right or Left: the Latino Millennial Vote.”

Kumar said the aim in developing VoterPal is to mobilize peer-to-peer voter registration as a solution to stimulating voter turnout in the face of what some civic and political activists consider a more hostile political climate targeting American Latinos and immigrants.

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[Photo courtesy of Voto Latino]

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