Current through 11/5/2024 election
Section 1-5-907 - In-person minority language ballot - county clerk - voter service and polling centers(1) The county clerk of any county that satisfies the criteria specified in section 1-5-905 (1) shall ensure that every voter service and polling center in the county is equipped to provide, upon the request of an elector, an in-person minority language ballot in any minority language spoken in the county that satisfies the following: (a) The minority language is spoken by at least two thousand citizens in the county age eighteen years or older who speak English less than very well, as defined by the United States bureau of the census American community survey or comparable census data, and who speak the minority language at home; or(b) The minority language is spoken by at least two and one-half percent of citizens in the county age eighteen years or older who speak English less than very well, as defined by the United States bureau of the census American community survey or comparable census data, and who speak the minority language at home.(2) An in-person minority language ballot option shall be either a ballot on demand, a ballot from a printed stock of ballots, or a ballot via a voting device and shall include all of the same content that is on the English language ballot.(3) A county clerk that is required to provide an in-person minority language ballot option in one or more minority languages pursuant to this section shall provide in-person minority language ballot options for the general election held in November 2022, and for each general election and statewide odd-year election thereafter.(4) The county clerk shall notify all electors via the mail ballot packet and in each language in which the in-person minority language ballot option will be available that electors may request an in-person minority language ballot in the applicable language at any voter service and polling center in the county.Added by 2021 Ch. 366, § 1, eff. 6/28/2021.