With the midterm elections coming up in November, politicians are looking to appeal to the nation's second-fastest growing minority group: Latinos. 

However, while the number of Latinos heading to the polls is growing overall, Latino voting turnout still lags behind other groups. 

TIME reports that 7.8 million Latino voters will head to the polls in 2014, which is 25 percent lower than in the 2012 presidential election. The projections were released by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO). 

NALEO claims that the decrease in Latino turnout reflects the nation's general disinterest in midterm elections. 

But NALEO still predicts that the Latino vote will be higher than in the 2010 midterm elections because the total Latino population has grown in the last four years. 

The total number of Latino voters expected to cast ballots represents 8 percent of the nation's total electorate.

The turnout is projected to be 18.8. percent higher than the turnout in the 2010 midterm election, when about 6.64 million Latinos voted. However, the numbers are much lower than the 11.2 million Latinos who voted in the general election in 2012. 

Arturo Vargas, the executive director of NALEO, hopes that the delay on immigration reform will urge Latino voters to take action. 

"It's my hope that there would be a sense of anger among Latinos that leads them to take action and to vote," Vargas said during a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington on Tuesday.

NALEO estimates that about 50,000 Latinos turn 18 every month, meaning there will be 28.8 million eligible Latino voters by the 2014 midterm elections. Yet, Vargas said that many do not feel engaged in politics, and some have lost faith in the democratic system. 

"There's a crisis in American democracy when you have 25 million U.S. citizens not voting," Vargas said. 

He said the situation is made worse by the elimination of some of the protections that were in place thanks to the Voting Rights Act. Vargas and NALEO are calling on Congress to reinstate the protections. 

Both parties are also reaching out to Latinos ahead of the vote. 

Actress and political activist Eva Longoria teamed up with DNC Finance Chairman Henry Munoz to announce the Latino Victory Project, which has a goal of raising millions to fund Hispanic candidates. 

After Romney received only 27 percent of the Latino vote in the 2012 presidential election, Republicans are also amping up efforts to gain Latino supporters. The Republican National Committee launched a seven-state Hispanic outreach program.  

Nevertheless, Republicans continue to present anti-immigration reform candidates, which will not bode well with most Latino constituents.