HR 2054 · in committee · significant
VOTE Act
- civil rights
What this bill does
- States must use English-only ballots to receive certain federal election funds.
- Voters with limited English proficiency and jurisdictions required to provide multilingual ballots are affected.
- The bill eliminates language assistance requirements under the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Community Threads
Started by Cosponsor
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How would eliminating multilingual ballot requirements affect voter participation in communities with significant non-English speaking populations?
- 02
What is the fiscal trade-off between federal election funding and the cost of providing language assistance under current Voting Rights Act requirements?
- 03
What evidence supports the premise that English-only ballots improve election integrity or administration compared to current multilingual ballot practices?
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Sponsor · R-AZ-8
Abraham J. Hamadeh
Citizen cosponsors
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In Congress
10/ 435
House Reps cosponsoring
Introduced 2025-03-11
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Legislative timeline
2025-03-11 · house · IntroReferral
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2025-03-11 · house · IntroReferral
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2025-03-11 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
2025-03-11 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
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