LULAC sues Iowa officials over 'failure' to provide non-English election materials
Fox News
A lawsuit against Iowa election officials has been filed by attorneys for the League of United Latin American Citizens of Iowa, proposing a challenge to the Iowa English Language Reaffirmation Act.
In a report on the suit, the Quad-City Times, a daily morning newspaper out of Davenport, noted that a "2002 state law mandates all official political documents from the state be written in English, with the exception of voting materials in two counties," adding that "only Buena Vista and Tama counties are allowed to translate election materials due to their high populations of Hispanic and Indigenous Peoples."
According to the lawsuit, filed by election law firm Elias Law Group and Des Moines law firm McCormally & Cosgrove, "Spanish speakers outside Buena Vista County — and other language minorities with limited English-language proficiency — face unnecessary barriers to voting due to an erroneous interpretation and implementation of the English-Only Law."