Sentence examples for voting assistance from inspiring English sources
The counties are required to provide election information, ballots and voting assistance information in one or more minority languages under the 1965 federal Voting Rights Act.
Bob Carey, director of the Federal Voting Assistance Program, which administers voting programs for the Defense Department, said the new policy would "build on that already extensive program of voting assistance" on military installations.
The substitute write-in ballot is also available from embassies and consulates, but voting assistance groups say some outposts are running out of forms.
The upshot: There is a military voting assistance officer for every 30 to 50 soldiers, but the onus is on the civilian to fill out the form alone.
Each military unit has a voting assistance officer, and the commanding officer of each military installation is told to emphasize "the importance of voting".
After the "horror story" of 2000, the military is "extremely vigilant" this time around, says Captain Christina Maxwell-Borges, a voting assistance officer at the US Army Installation Management Agency in Stuttgart.
They include requirements that voters who are disabled be able to vote and verify their vote without assistance, that voters be able to verify their votes before casting them and that the paper records be printed in both English and the voter's preferred language.
They let people who are blind and disabled vote without assistance, and they are as secure from fraud as any other method of voting.
The House at first voted down assistance in order to kill the whole deal, but then Republicans promised a separate vote on adjustment assistance; and so the House on Thursday narrowly approved fast track, 218-208, with 28 Democrats in support.
In some cases, they have been able to vote without assistance on the touch-screen machines.
Dr. Hamer said that while he was grateful for the help, "I want to state emphatically that I did not trade my vote for assistance on my son's behalf".
