Expanding Language Access in Elections: Support for Minorities
This act aims to make it easier for language minority groups to participate in elections. It ensures access to voting materials in their languages, including digital formats, and provides financial support to states and local governments for these efforts. This will help citizens from language minorities better understand election information.
Key points
Expanding the definition of voting materials to include digital formats, making information more accessible in various languages.
Requiring states to provide voting materials in minority languages, even if local subdivisions are directly subject to the requirement.
Allowing American Indian and Alaska Native tribes to opt for oral translations instead of written ones if their language is unwritten or they prefer it.
Providing grants to states and local governments to cover the costs of translating voting materials into minority languages, encouraging broader language support.
Mandating a study on the impact of lowering language threshold requirements and including new languages like Arabic, French, and Haitian Creole in the definition of language minorities.
Introduced
Citizen Poll