Latinos continue to register to vote, but are not voting as much as other groups, according to a new Pew Research Center study.

This November, a record 23.7 million Latinos will be eligible to vote in the presidential election. They now comprise 11% of registered voters, up from 9.5% in 2008 and 8.2% in 2004.

But if recent history is any guide, only half will actually cast ballots. In 2008, only 50% of eligible Latino voters went to the polls, compared with 66% of whites and 65% of blacks. Between 2008 and 2010, the number of Latinos registered to vote actually declined by 600,000.

Latinos make up the largest minority group in the U.S., comprising 16.7% of the population and totaling 51.9 million people. However more than half are ineligible to vote either because they are not citizens or they are younger than 18 years old.

-Noel Brinkerhoff

To Learn More:

A Record 24 Million Latinos Are Eligible to Vote, But Turnout Rate Has Lagged That of Whites, Blacks (by Mark Hugo Lopez, Seth Motel and Eileen Patten, Pew Hispanic Center)

Report: A Record 24 Million Latinos Are Eligible to Vote, But Turnout Rate Has Lagged That of Whites, Blacks (by Mark Hugo Lopez, Seth Motel and Eileen Patten, Pew Hispanic Center) (pdf)

Federal Judges Reject Texas Redistricting as Anti-Minority (by Noel Brinkerhoff and David Wallechinsky, AllGov)

Texas Latinos: 1/3 of Population, 1/4 Majority Districts, 1/7 of Congressional Seats (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)