Roughly 20 counties in Colorado will need to start providing multilingual ballots for voters after a law passed in 2021 takes effect for the first time in this midterm election. via Meghan_Lopez
LITTLETON, Colo. — At the Arapahoe County elections division, things are starting to get busy before the November election.
The law requires counties to provide multilingual ballots if 2.5% of county voters, or 2,000 voting-aged citizens, speak English “less than well” and speak a shared minority language at home. This law significantly expands those requirements and provides some resources for counties to be able to do so.
“Ballot language is notoriously hard to understand. I, as a college graduate, even sometimes struggle with some of the legalese that are in the ballot,” Moreno said. “Turnout is going to increase as a result of this because finally people will have a ballot that they can actually interpret, that they can understand.”
“It wasn't required by any federal or state law but we thought that was good outreach,” said Peg Perl, the deputy director of elections for the Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder’s office. Those changes include a Spanish-language live ballot instead of only the sample one. For the multilingual ballots, the Secretary of State’s Office will be responsible for providing translations for the statewide ballot questions while the counties and municipalities will be responsible for translating their own questions.
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