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| For the first time a U.S. state is making voter registration forms available in a South Asian language.
New Jersey, which has the highest proportion of Indians in any state in the country, printed registration forms in Gujarati for the presidential primaries in February. The forms, available in English, Spanish, Cantonese, Korean and Mandarin, are also available for the November presidential elections.
The state has an estimated 200,000 Indians, almost a quarter of them in Middlesex County. The measure for South Asian language forms has been pushed by the Asian American Legal Defence and Education Fund, which argues that half of Bangladeshis, a third of Pakistanis and about a quarter of Indians in the US, have limited English proficiency. |
