"But with both of us on the ballot, we would bring the maximum voters to the polls and show for once that we are a voting community".
The ballot change will be a culture shock for an Academy voting community that tends to be older and more conservative: indeed, concerns are already surfacing as to whether all of the Academy voters even have email addresses.
Either way, the demographic growth of the Latino voting community means that shoring up Latino support ought to be a significant concern.
Watching friendly neighborhood faces making small talk, political candidates seeking a handshake and last-minute votes, community members gathering signatures for a new referendum in the next election.
In the several hours I was a part of the voting community, of adult America, I felt stripped of my power, too individual to make a difference, and too unimportant in the scheme of our nation's future.
A stated goal of the Symposium agenda posted on the website is to bring together the alternative voting community "with successfully elected politicians to focus on how best to improve the election system".
Ultimately, it may not matter whether Trump sees the problem as needing to garner more support in the Latino voting community or as needing to maintain at least the level of support he received this year in any re-election campaign.
In a very thorough analysis of communities in Los Angeles, we find that Sanchez had very large margins over Harris in the most heavily Latino voting communities in Los Angeles.
Did Clinton mean to overlook the economic depression conditions most of the voting communities she claims to care about, and marginalize our economic distress?
This is not Rock the Vote; the community is not really moving toward greater inclusiveness.
