Elections officials grapple with Native American language rule (fwd link)

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Elections officials grapple with Native American language rule

Requests for Yuma have some stumped

Posted Dec 12, 2011, 10:10 am
Uriel J. Garcia Cronkite News Service
USA

WASHINGTON — Coconino County election officials have provided
translators at the polls for Navajo speakers. They have done the same
for Hopi voters.

But Yuma has them stumped.

“There has never been a request for (Yuma),” said Coconino County
Elections Administrator Patty Hansen. “So now we’re trying to find
someone who can speak that language.”

Coconino was one of three Arizona counties that were told by the
federal government in October that they would have to add voting
assistance in the obscure language, which previously had been required
only of Yuma County.

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