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Judge Orders Assistance for Spanish-Speaking Voters
Source: PoliticalWire
May 11, 2019 at 8:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
A federal judge is requiring 32 of Florida’s 67 counties to provide election materials and assistance to Spanish-speaking voters before the 2020 presidential primary, NBC News reports.
The decision “comes after several civic engagement groups and individuals sued the state secretary of state and elections supervisors last year for what they say was a violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 for not making available bilingual voting materials and assistance to the state’s growing number of Spanish speakers.”
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Read more: https://politicalwire.com/2019/05/11/judge-orders-assistance-for-spanish-speaking-voters/
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