Ben Winslow is a reporter with FOX 13 covering a variety of topics including politics, polygamy, vice and courts.
SALT LAKE CITY — The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah has sent a letter to every county clerk in the state, reminding them to provide language assistance to voters.
It tells them that under federal law, clerks are required to provide help to voters who may have limited English proficiency either in written materials or with translation help. "The purpose of the letter is twofold. It's so that the county clerks are aware of this and they provide assistance to everyone who needs this and so that community members know this as well," Andrea Jimenez Flores, an immigrants rights policy analyst at the ACLU of Utah, said in an interview Friday with FOX 13 News.
There is precedence for this in Utah. The ACLU was a part of a lawsuit filed against San Juan County over voter language assistance. The litigation alleged that the county's reliance on vote-by-mail and fewer in-person voting locations created problems for Navajo speaking voters. San Juan County, the ACLU and the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission settled the lawsuit in 2018.
The ACLU said it would collect information from any voter who experiences an issue with language assistance to work with county clerks in future election cycles to provide help.
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