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Asian voters met barriers during primary: Advocates

By Chris Fuchs

The speakers told the Subcommittee on Immigration, chaired by City Councilman Lloyd Henry (D-Brooklyn), that polling sites in culturally diverse communities like Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, Chinatown in lower Manhattan and Flushing were understaffed with translators and that non-English-speaking voters were often treated rudely by poll workers

Christopher Kui, the executive director of Asian Americans for Equality, said in a statement to the committee that senior citizens found it difficult to read the ballots printed in Chinese because the character typeset was