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“Justice officials wrote in the new court papers that they seek to prevent Philadelphia “from continuing to violate the rights of minority voters.” Specifically, it said the city must translate all election materials into Spanish and provide bilingual personnel at polling places where 5 percent or more of the voters are Spanish-speaking.
But some leaders in the local Latino community say they don’t really need or want any help from the GOP administration.
Yesterday, a group of Latino advocates, city officials and African-American clergy and activists protested the lawsuit at a press conference, saying the timing of the suit so close to a midterm election was suspicious and a form of voter intimidation.”
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