The ACLU says a number of Texas Counties could be in violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The reason is these counties don't have election and voting information in English and Spanish.
Edgar Saldavar with the ACLU of Texas says they have identified 69 counties that have inadequate voter information in Spanish. He says at least 16 have more egregious violators.
The ACLU of Texas has sent those counties letters says they may be violating the act "in terms of not having either any information in Spanish, having broken links where if you click on something it would not take you to a Spanish language translation."Saldavar says Refugio county in South Texas, like many other counties, uses an automated translation service which can be inaccurate.
For example instead of translating the words runoff election "to an equivalent in Spanish, which would be partido, it translates it to essentially runoff leakage or runoff drainage which makes no sense and can confuse voters."Under the Voting Rights Act, counties that have over 10,000 people who's primary language is Spanish or where those who's first language is Spanish make up more than five percent of all eligible voters, must offer accurate voting information in both languages.
