Arabic-language ballots in Dearborn, Mich., had an error, the city announced, a spotlight on challenges that can come with providing voting access for non-English speakers.
introduced by city councilman Mustapha Hammoud that required access for election materials in any language spoken at home by a minimum of 10,000 residents or 5 percent of the population, based on census data, whichever threshold is met first.The city has one of the highest percentages of Arab Americans in the United States — and Arabic was the only language that passed the resolution’s requirement for non-English-language ballots in this year’s primary and general elections.
“There’s nothing preventing election officials, policywise, from offering materials and information in additional languages,” Kanter Cohen said.that would allow the publishing of election materials in those additional languages and fund state and local officials in the effort. Jeanine Erikat, the policy lead at the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans, said her fears were particularly focused on diverse border counties such as San Diego County.
In September 2018, the judge ruled in the groups’ favor, ordering 32 counties to provide Spanish-language sample ballots, but stopped short of requiring official ballots because of the lack of time before the midterm elections.
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