Chapter 9 – Assisted Voting

E. Language Voting Assistance

    Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act requires five counties in Illinois to provide language voting assistance for the 2022 election cycle
  • Cook — Hispanic, Chinese, Asian Indian
  • DuPage — Hispanic
  • Kane — Hispanic
  • Lake — Hispanic
  • Will — Hispanic

"Whenever any State or political subdivision [covered by the section] provides registration or voting notices, forms, instructions, assistance, or other materials or information relating to the electoral process, including ballots, it shall provide them in the language of the applicable minority group as well as in the English language."

as quoted by the US Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division

SOURCE: Federal Register, p. 4; Vol. 86, No. 233; December 8, 2021
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-12-08/pdf/2021-26547.pdf

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