Board of Commissioners of Cook County - File #: 23-4089

• File #: 23-4089
• Version: 1
• Name: AN AMENDMENT PROTECTING CURRENT ELECTORAL LANGUAGE ACCESS
• Type: Ordinance Amendment
• Status: Approved
• File created: 7/13/2023
• In control: Legislation and Intergovernmental Relations Committee
• On agenda: 7/20/2023
• Final action: 10/19/2023
• Title: PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT AN AMENDMENT PROTECTING CURRENT ELECTORAL LANGUAGE ACCESS NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, that Chapter 22 - Elections, Article III - Language Access In Elections, Section 22-37 of the Cook County Code is hereby amended as Follows: Sec. 22-37. - Policy. (a) By March 1, 2020, the Office of the Cook County Clerk shall deliver fully translated ballots and voting materials in Korean and Tagalog, in addition to qualified languages required by Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 52 U.S.C. ? 10503 as the first phase of this program. (b) By November 1, 2020, and at least every three years thereafter, the Office of the Cook County Clerk or their designee shall review data on limited-English-proficient populations in Cook County and shall determine, in consultation with community leaders of limited-English-proficient populations, each single language that has 10,000 or more limited-English-proficient Cook Count...
• Sponsors: KEVIN B. MORRISON, SCOTT R. BRITTON, FRANK J. AGUILAR, ALMA E. ANAYA, JOHN P. DALEY, BRIDGET DEGNEN, BRIDGET GAINER, MONICA GORDON, BILL LOWRY, DONNA MILLER, STANLEY MOORE, JOSINA MORITA, SEAN M. MORRISON, ANTHONY J. QUEZADA, TARA S. STAMPS, MAGGIE TREVOR

Date	Ver.	Action By	Motion	Result
10/19/2023	1	Board of Commissioners	approve	Pass
10/18/2023	1	Legislation and Intergovernmental Relations Committee	recommend for approval	Pass
7/20/2023	1	Board of Commissioners	refer	Pass

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PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT

AN AMENDMENT PROTECTING CURRENT ELECTORAL LANGUAGE ACCESS

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, that Chapter 22 - Elections, Article III - Language Access In Elections, Section 22-37 of the Cook County Code is hereby amended as Follows:

Sec. 22-37. - Policy.

(a) By March 1, 2020, the Office of the Cook County Clerk shall deliver fully translated ballots and voting materials in Korean and Tagalog, in addition to qualified languages required by Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 52 U.S.C. ? 10503 as the first phase of this program.

(b) By November 1, 2020, and at least every three years thereafter, the Office of the Cook County Clerk or their designee shall review data on limited-English-proficient populations in Cook County and shall determine, in consultation with community leaders of limited-English-proficient populations, each single language that has 10,000 or more limited-English-proficient Cook County residents. The Office of the Cook County Clerk will then provide all translated voting materials in those determined languages in the following elections until and unless it is determined in a future evaluation that the group has fallen below a minimum threshold of 2,000 residents. does not reach that threshold. The Cook County Clerk shall analyze relevant data and shall consult community leaders and organizations to determine prioritized precincts where voting materials shall be provided on Election Day. The Cook County Clerk shall make voting materials available for all qualified languages at all Early Voting sites and "Super Sites."

(c) By February 1, 2021, and at least every three years thereafter, the Office of the Cook County Clerk or their designee shall review data on limited-English-proficient populations in Cook County and shall determine, in consultation with community leaders of limited-English-proficient populations, each single language that has 13,000 or mor...