Voting requirement causes headaches for New Jersey Peruvians

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Posted on: April 8th, 2006
Filed Under: [ Hispanic News ] [ Politics ]

“HACKENSACK, N.J. - A single high school in Paterson is the sole place in New Jersey and Pennsylvania for Peruvians to vote in their homeland’s national elections on Sunday.

And with Peruvian expatriates facing fines from their homeland if they fail to vote, many of the more than 24,000 Peruvians in the two states are grumbling.

“It’s abusive,” Daniel Jara of Hackensack told The Record of Bergen County for Saturday newspapers. “With”

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