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<h1 class="title" text-align="center"><span>Language Help at NYC Poll Sites Expanding -- and Confusing</span>
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<p class="byline"><b>By Marie-France Han</b></p>
<p class="date">July 2023</p>
<h2 class="subtitle" text-align="center"><span>Starting in 2020, the City of New York has pushed to make voting
more accessible to US citizens of limited English proficiency by increasing the number of languages spoken
at poll sites - but clear information remains difficult to obtain. </span></h2>
<div class="bottomleft">Tom Arthur / Creative Commons</div>
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<p>Established in 2018, the New York City Civic Engagement Commission (NYCEC) offers poll-site language
assistance that supplements existing NYC Board of Elections' interpretation services, which are mostly
limited to Spanish and Chinese.</p>
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<p>The CEC's language assistance aims to supplement the BOE's services. </p>
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alt="Map of NYC by community district showing color-coded poll sites offering language assistance" /></noscript>
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<p>"Many residents of New York City speak more than one language; a number of them speak and understand
non-English languages more fluently than English," according to the CEC. </p>
<p> Its methodology is based on the US Census Bureau's
<a
href="https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Population-and-Languages-of-the-Limited-English-Pr/ajin-gkbp">American
Community Survey (ACS),</a>
which estimates at more than 1.7 million the number of New Yorkers with limited English proficiency. It aims
to serve the voting-age US citizens who are a subset of that population.
</p>
<p>But how close to the reality is the CEC's map? Let's compare the list of poll sites offering language
assistance for the June 2022 primary elections and the Census data by community district.</p>
<p>Between 2015-2019, the five-year time period covered by the ACS data, Russian-language speakers represented
almost two-fifths (39%) of US citizens of voting age with limited English proficiency. </p>
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style="width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;" height="754" data-external="1"></iframe>
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type="text/javascript">!function () { "use strict"; window.addEventListener("message", (function (a) { if (void 0 !== a.data["datawrapper-height"]) { var e = document.querySelectorAll("iframe"); for (var t in a.data["datawrapper-height"]) for (var r = 0; r < e.length; r++)if (e[r].contentWindow === a.source) { var i = a.data["datawrapper-height"][t] + "px"; e[r].style.height = i } } })) }(); </script>
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style="width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;" height="665" data-external="1"></iframe>
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<p>While Russian-language help is provided at numerous poll sites in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, such
resources are not offered in Staten Island. </p>
<p>Haitian speakers, the second largest group of voters with limited English, represent more than half of such
citizens in Crown Heights and East Flatbush -- where language services are offered. </p>
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src="https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/JCP5k/1/" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
style="width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;" height="715" data-external="1"></iframe>
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<p></p>
<p>Arabic speakers, the third group, get poll-site assistance only in Brooklyn -- despite the fact that they
are present in three other counties. </p>
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<iframe title="Italian-Speaking US Citizens" aria-label="Map" id="datawrapper-chart-Bs29M"
src="https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Bs29M/1/" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
style="width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;" height="715" data-external="1"></iframe>
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src="https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/4BvEN/1/" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
style="width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;" height="675" data-external="1"></iframe>
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<p></p>
<p>Italian-speakers may consider themselves most fortunate, with poll sites covering four of the five boroughs
in which they reside, with the exception of Manhattan.</p>
<p></p>
<div class="graph-title">Information Remains Hard to Find - and Confusing</div>
<p>While these supplemental language resources were created with the purpose of expanding voting access to a
greater number of US citizens regardless of their English proficiency, finding them was more difficult than
it should have been.</p>
<p>The only election for which these poll sites could be found was the June 2022 primary. For a citizen
looking to exercise their right to vote, this scarcity can be a deterrent. The fact that language access to
the polls is managed by two different instances (the CEC and the BOE) with two different sets of sites, can
only add to the confusion. </p>
<p>A search for "Board of elections language help" leads to the CEC's webpage, which only provides a list of
sites dating back to June 2022. </p>
<p>A search for "NYC elections interpreter" yields resources to BECOME an interpreter, along with the
aforementioned CEC list. No information about the Board of Elections. </p>
<p>At press time, phone calls to the Board of Elections' Manhattan office, executive office, and language
department were met with a request to address questions to the Board's press office, which hasn't responded.
</p>
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<h2 class="subtitle">Methodology</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">Project Type: </span> Data journalism project for the <a
href="https://ledeprogram.com/" target="_blank"> Lede Program at Columbia University</a>, summer 2023</p>
<p> <span style="font-weight: bold">Date: </span>July 2023</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">Sources:</span>
<p>-- Poll site data found via web search on the Civic Engagement Commission site on <a
href="https://www.nyc.gov/site/civicengagement/voting/about-poll-site-language-assistance.page">nyc.gov</a>.
</p>
<p>-- CEC's methodology explained <a
href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/civicengagement/downloads/pdf/nyccec-poll-site-language-assistance-program-methodology.pdf">here.</a>
</p>
<p>-- Data on limited English proficient citizens of voting age (CVALEP) provided by <a
href="https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Population-and-Languages-of-the-Limited-English-Pr/ajin-gkbp">the
Census bureau's American Community Survey (ACS).</a> </p>
<p>-- Code and data available on <a href="https://github.com/mfhan/pollsites" target="_blank">Github</a>.</p>
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