On November 18th, President-elect Donald Trump selected Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as his nominee to become the attorney general of the United States. A key responsibility of the attorney general is to oversee the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division — enforcing our nation’s civil rights laws and upholding the U.S. Constitution.  

This handbook is intended to be an advocacy tool that provides an introduction to language voting assistance and to the role you can play to ensure that Section 203-covered jurisdictions are complying with the law so that Asian American citizens can freely exercise their right to vote. The handbook will discuss how to determine whether your community qualified for language voting assistance under Section 203, how to obtain such assistance, and the types of assistance you can expect to receive.