Joseph Garcia, Director of the Latino Public Policy Center at ASU's Morrison Institute was a guest on KTAR and explained how changing voter demographics in Arizona could turn the state blue in the near future.

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Tucson News Now reported that ONE Arizona, a non-partisan coalition of 19 organizations dedicated to Latino voter registration, immigration, economic justice and education, announced the launch of the statewide effort to register thousands of new voters by this fall.

The effort is needed in Arizona, according to a study by the Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Morrison Institute.

Andrea Whitsett, with Damien R. Meyer
July 23, 2018

This column first appeared July 22, 2018 at azcentral.

Opinion: Only 55 percent of eligible Arizona voters cast a ballot in 2016. Could a lack of information on offices and issues be part of the culprit?

We know too many potential voters are skipping Arizona elections. But why? And most importantly, what we can do about it?

In a column in the West Valley View, Litchfield Elementary School District superintendent Jodi Gunning wrote that thanks to local and statewide support, the governing board approved historic teacher and staff pay increases that directly influenced Litchfield’s impressive teacher retention rate of 82 percent.

KJZZ's The Show was joined by David Daugherty, a senior research fellow at Morrison Institute for Public Policy, and Tom Collins, executive director at the Citizen's Clean Elections Commission to talk about the findings of a new report called “Arizona’s Voter Crisis.”

NBC 12News Phoenix political reporter Brahm Resnik verified Arizona's voter turnout is one of the lowest in the country. A new report by Arizona State University's Morrison Institute for Public Policy labels this a voter crisis as too many people elect not to vote.

A new report shows that 45 percent, or just over two million Arizona residents, who could vote didn’t. That puts Arizona at 43rd nationwide in voter participation, with the authors of the report saying that people are making choices in our elections by not voting.

KTAR News reported that according to a study by Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University, Voter participation is eroding across the U.S. and the situation in Arizona is a crisis.