Hillary Clinton's Call to Ease Voting Impacts Growing Latino Vote

Although the setting for her voting rights speech was a historically black college, presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's call for making it easier for Americans to vote has implications for the political involvement of Latinos.

Every year, at least 50,000 Latino youth turn 18. Pew Research Center has projected that Latinos would account for 40 percent of the growth in America's eligible to vote through 2030 and in that year, some 40 million Latinos would be able to vote.

Speaking at Texas Southern University - established in Houston in 1927 as Colored Junior College to educate blacks - Clinton proposed automatic voter registration for young people when they turn 18, unless they opt out. She also proposed a national standard of no fewer than 20 days of early voting in every state.

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