Is Language Holding Back New York’s Bengali Voters?

We visit a Bangladeshi-owned barbershop in post-Sandy New York. Tuesday’s ballot was supposed to have been translated into Bengali– a requirement under the Voting Rights Act– but election officials missed the deadline. In the barbershop, though, voters are as divided between Obama and Romney as the country is.

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We visit a Bangladeshi-owned barbershop in post-Sandy New York. Tuesday’s ballot was supposed to have been translated into Bengali– a requirement under the Voting Rights Act– but election officials missed the deadline. In the barbershop, though, voters are as divided between Obama and Romney as the country is.