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• Position: STATELINE - Right to vote and minority languages - Brief article

"If you don't understand what you're voting for, the right to vote doesn't mean anything," says Natalie Landreth, a staff attorney for the Native American Rights Fund. Landreth used this argument in a 2007 suit filed by a group of Yup'ik-speaking Alaska Natives, claiming that they were entitled to ballots and other election information in their language based on the minority language protections in the Voting Rights Act. Alaska is home to 24,000...