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    LA TO ADD ARMENIAN, RUSSIAN AND FARSI TO CITY BALLOTS

    ARMENPRESS
    AUGUST 2, 2012
    YEREVAN

    YEREVAN, AUGUST 2, ARMENPRESS: The City of Los Angeles will now
    provide election services in Armenian, Russian and Farsi, and the three
    languages could be on ballots by 2015. As Armenpress reports citing
    Southern California Publicc Radio, councilman Paul Krekorian, who
    is the first Armenian-American to be elected to the Los Angeles City
    Council, recommended that election outreach and pollworker recruitment
    be done in Armenian for the city's 28,000 registered voters of Armenian
    descent. An amendment added Russian and Farsi to those recommendations.

    "We're the city with the greatest diversity in this country. There
    are 92 languages spoken by the parents of LAUSD students at home,"
    Krekorian said. "The third most commonly spoken language by those
    who are not perfectly fluent in English is Armenian, after Spanish
    and Korean."

    The City Clerk already provides election services in eight languages
    other than English: Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Spanish,
    Tagalog and Vietnamese, per a federal mandate. Local municipalities
    can voluntarily add other languages at their discretion.

    "This phenomenon is also practiced by some of our companion
    jurisdictions like Glendale and Burbank," said City Clerk June
    Lagmay. "They are not under federal mandate, but they have voluntarily
    added those languages as a service to their community".

    The City Clerk's Office estimates it will cost about $109,000 to
    provide outreach and recruitment in Armenian for the 2013 election.

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