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05-11-2012, 12:40 PM
According to Fox News, New York is shaping up to become a swing state in this year's Dominican presidential election.
Thanks to a law passed in 1997, expatriate Dominicans no longer have to fly to the country's capital of Santo Domingo to vote in presidential elections. Dominicans voted locally for the first time in 2004 and tens of thousands of Dominican expatriates registered to vote for the 2012 contest n making New York one of the island nation's most important constituencies in the neck-and-neck election scheduled for May 20.
The power of the Dominican expatriate vote owes largely to efforts by the Dominican Central Electoral Board (JCE), to boost voter registration in recent years.
On 5 February the Board reported that it had registered 328,649 Dominicans living abroad in countries such as the US, Canada, Spain and Italy - about 5% of the total pool of 6.5 million registered voters, according to the JCE.
The number of Dominican residents of New York City registered to vote has almost doubled over the last four years, from 55,989 in 2008 to over 103,000 today.
About 20% of the Dominican Republic's nearly 10 million citizens currently live abroad. The majority, over 1.4 million Dominicans, live in the US, according to the 2010 US Census.
Almost half of them, approximately 674,000, live in New York State. New Jersey, Massachusetts, Florida and Pennsylvania also have high Dominican populations.
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/05/10/new-york-may-swing-dominican-republic-presidential-elections/
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#5)
Thanks to a law passed in 1997, expatriate Dominicans no longer have to fly to the country's capital of Santo Domingo to vote in presidential elections. Dominicans voted locally for the first time in 2004 and tens of thousands of Dominican expatriates registered to vote for the 2012 contest n making New York one of the island nation's most important constituencies in the neck-and-neck election scheduled for May 20.
The power of the Dominican expatriate vote owes largely to efforts by the Dominican Central Electoral Board (JCE), to boost voter registration in recent years.
On 5 February the Board reported that it had registered 328,649 Dominicans living abroad in countries such as the US, Canada, Spain and Italy - about 5% of the total pool of 6.5 million registered voters, according to the JCE.
The number of Dominican residents of New York City registered to vote has almost doubled over the last four years, from 55,989 in 2008 to over 103,000 today.
About 20% of the Dominican Republic's nearly 10 million citizens currently live abroad. The majority, over 1.4 million Dominicans, live in the US, according to the 2010 US Census.
Almost half of them, approximately 674,000, live in New York State. New Jersey, Massachusetts, Florida and Pennsylvania also have high Dominican populations.
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/05/10/new-york-may-swing-dominican-republic-presidential-elections/
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#5)