• Title: EMIGRE VOTE.
• Guest: Dalia Moreno López.
• Additional Guests: Roberto Bravo, Jesús Martínez.
• Host: Chelis López
• Date: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012
• Description: EMIGRE VOTE. As the presidential elections in Mexico draw near, tens of thousands of Mexican nationals in the United States prepare to send in absentee ballots or caravan to the border to cast their votes.
• Genre: News
• Location: Oakland, CA.
• Program Number: 6698
• Producer: Samuel Orozco
• Progam Number: 6698
• Publisher: Radio Bilingüe
• Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License
• Subject: Politics
• Year: 2012
• Program Name: la_120606.mp3
• Length: 59:06 minutes (54.12 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

EMIGRE VOTE. As the presidential elections in Mexico draw near, tens of thousands of Mexican nationals in the United States prepare to send in absentee ballots or caravan to the border to cast their votes. What issues are driving Mexican emigres to vote? Who is mobilizing that voting block? How can they cast a ballot from abroad on time?

Guests: Dalia Moreno López, Coordinator of Voting of Residents Abroad, Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), Houston, TX, www.ife.org.mx ; Roberto Bravo, President of Binational Council of Community Organizations and Consultant, Institute of Mexicans Abroad, Los Angeles, CA, interviewed from Mexico; Jesús Martínez, Researcher and Former Congressman of Mexico, Clovis, CA.