Chicago Board of Elections Reaching Out to South Asian Voters

Approximately 65 percent of the more than four million South Asians who live in the U.S. - those who can trace their heritage to Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka - are citizens who can vote. Chicago is making new efforts to encourage more in the large South Asian community to cast a ballot. Bangladeshi immigrant Rashida Parveen voted in her first U.S. election in 2000, when she was just getting a grasp on the English language. ...

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