Focuses on obtaining information about bilingual voting assistance from selected jurisdictions across the country.

This book focuses on obtaining more detailed information about bilingual voting assistance from selected jurisdictions across the country. This book's objectives were to determine: the ways that selected jurisdictions covered under Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act have provided bilingual voting assistance as of the November 2006 general election and any subsequent elections through June 2007, and the challenges they reportedly faced in providing such assistance; the perceived usefulness of this bilingual voting assistance, and the extent to which the selected jurisdictions evaluated the usefulness of such assistance to language minority voters. This is an excerpted and indexed edition.

Preface
Results in Brief
Background
Election Officials in All But One Jurisdiction Reported Providing Bilingual Voting Assistance, but Experienced Challenges
Some Forms of Bilingual Voting Assistance Were Perceived as More Useful than Others, but Formally Evaluating Its Usefulness Presented Many Challenges
Concluding Observations
Agency Comments
Appendix I. Objectives, Scope, and Methodology
Appendix II. Section 203 Coverage Criteria Regarding Language Minority Groups and Covered Jurisdictions
Appendix III. DOJ Actions under Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act, 1980-2007
Appendix IV. Examples of Bilingual Voting Written Assistance Materials
Appendix V. Additional Challenges to Evaluating the Usefulness of Bilingual Voting Assistance
Appendix VI. Comments from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission
Bilingual Voting Assistance
Index.