Multilingual voting gets a boost in Boston

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A worker tests a mail-in ballot scanner in Waltham, Mass., on Oct. 23, 2024.

For the many non-English speaking residents in Boston who can vote in Tuesday’s presidential election, the city has set up resources to help them through the process.

“We have staffed over 2,000 poll workers to assist on Election Day — I believe 400 of them speak a language other than English,” said Eneida Tavares, Chair of the Boston Election Commission, at an event last weekend.

Multilingual poll workers help with language assistance on site and via phone through the Boston Election department translator phone bank. Voters have access to a language ID card which helps connect them to a translator.

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The language identification card used at polls in Boston.

If a specific language isn’t accessible at the polling site, the call center will be notified, according to Gayana Daniel, of the Office of Language and Communications Access…

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