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Plan to Ease Voter Registration for Spanish Speakers Stalled
Monday, August 2, 2004 at 04:25AM
Translated Form Still Not Available on FEC Web Site
Federal promises to make registering to vote easier for Spanish-speaking voters by posting the required forms on the Internet have been lost in translation. Seven months after the government hired a company to translate the material, and nearly a year after the English version was made available, nothing appeared online. On Friday evening, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, after questions from The Washington Post, rushed a translated version still under review onto its Web site. But as of yesterday afternoon, the Federal Election Commission did not offer the Spanish version on its site. [more]
Federal promises to make registering to vote easier for Spanish-speaking voters by posting the required forms on the Internet have been lost in translation. Seven months after the government hired a company to translate the material, and nearly a year after the English version was made available, nothing appeared online. On Friday evening, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, after questions from The Washington Post, rushed a translated version still under review onto its Web site. But as of yesterday afternoon, the Federal Election Commission did not offer the Spanish version on its site. [more]
