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Amid a tense election season, a Korean translator and
activist is calling out a Harris County election judge who she said
forced her and other translators to stand outside a Houston polling
place, barring them from effectively helping voters.
Dona
Kim Murphey said she and roughly 10 other volunteers at the Trini
Mendenhall Community Center were instructed to stand in the parking lot
Sunday afternoon, beyond the 100-foot markers that draw a boundary for
where people can electioneer. Murphey said she thought translators
typically were allowed to stay in the polling place to offer help.
But
Sonya Aston, Harris County's elections administrator, said what Murphey
and others were doing was against the rules. Ballots are printed in
English, Spanish, Vietnamese and Chinese. People who need help with
another language are supposed to bring their own translator, Aston said.
In her view, it shouldn't be that they are approached and asked if they
need help in line at the polls.
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Source: The Houston Chronicle
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