Bill > S5326

This bill, the "Expanding the Voluntary Opportunities for Translations in Elections Act" or the "Expanding the VOTE Act," aims to modify certain notice requirements, study certain election requirements, and clarify certain election requirements. Key provisions include: 1. Requiring states that provide voting materials to political subdivisions covered by the language minority requirements of the Voting Rights Act to also be subject to those requirements. 2. Allowing states or political subdivisions to provide oral instructions, assistance, and translations of voting materials to American Indian, Alaska Native, and other minority groups with unwritten languages, rather than requiring written translations. 3. Establishing a grant program through the Election Assistance Commission to provide incentives for states and political subdivisions to offer voting materials in the languages of minority groups not already covered by the Voting Rights Act. 4. Directing the Comptroller General to study the impact of lowering the population thresholds for Voting Rights Act language minority coverage and expanding the definition of "language minorities" to include additional languages.