by Mable F. Yee, Women's Media Center, USA - How come no one ever hears about the Asian American women and other women of color who happen to number over 30 million citizens in the United States today? Perhaps it’s the startling revelation that in the 2004 elections 47 percent of Asian American , 40 percent of Latinas and 28 percent of African American women who were U.S. citizens did not register and failed to turn out to vote.