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He watches as the community's leaders struggle for minor concessions like Russian-language ballots.

At six voting sites in Flushing, Queens, Chinese-language ballots were translated incorrectly.

State lawmakers celebrate the introduction of Bengali-language ballots at a Board of Elections office in Queens.

There were further problems in April, when the county misprinted the title of an initiative on 1.3 million Spanish-language ballots that were mailed to early voters.

It also expanded it to cover discrimination against members of "language minority groups" in places that used only English-language ballots even though substantial numbers of people spoke another language.

The addition of Bengali-language ballots at 60 polling sites in Queens comes nearly two years after the federal government ordered the city to provide language assistance to South Asian minorities under a provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

In parts of Queens, the Chinese-language ballots in November reversed the party headings for Congressional, state and judicial candidates, so that the Democrats were listed under the heading of Republican and Republicans under the heading of Democrat.

He noted that this year officials refused to make Spanish-language ballots available to residents who have difficulty reading English.

(In addition to this, Coffman is opposed to birthright citizenship, which allows children of undocumented immigrants born on U.S. soil to be citizens. Coffman is also against a provision in the Voting Rights Act that requires some jurisdictions to provide dual-language ballots).

"The secretary of state has one duty that a few large donors and politically potent entities care intensely about: the drafting of language for ballot initiatives," he said.

In Missouri, Kander's race for secretary of state has become one of the most competitive, with voter identification and the language of ballot initiatives becoming the top issues.