{"id":9851,"date":"2017-08-24T10:40:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T15:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=9851"},"modified":"2017-08-24T10:41:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T15:41:12","slug":"gwinnett-sends-first-ever-batch-of-bilingual-letters-to-local-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/24\/gwinnett-sends-first-ever-batch-of-bilingual-letters-to-local-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwinnett sends first-ever batch of bilingual letters to local voters (Cobb County next?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9861\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/newsEngin.19393044_votingphoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9861\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9861\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/newsEngin.19393044_votingphoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/newsEngin.19393044_votingphoto.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/newsEngin.19393044_votingphoto-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/newsEngin.19393044_votingphoto-768x490.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: AJC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AJC<br \/>\nAug. 22, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gwinnett sends first-ever batch of bilingual letters to local voters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gwinnett County sent out its first-ever batch of bilingual letters to voters last week, a significant milestone in its mission to comply with a new federal designation that requires it to better serve Spanish-speaking residents come election time.<\/p>\n<p>The roughly 12,000 letters mailed Friday by the Gwinnett County Voter Registrations and Elections Division notified voter in Lilburn and Snellville that city polling places were changing for November\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>Voters in Lilburn, which has two city council seats up for grabs, will now cast their ballots at the new city hall and library building at 340 Main St. Residents of Snellville, which will have three city council seats on November\u2019s ballot, will now vote at the Snellville Senior Center located at 2350 Oak Road&#8230;&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/local-govt--politics\/gwinnett-sends-first-ever-batch-bilingual-letters-local-voters\/rn1GYOikoTM6LtnNbKeY3J\/\">MORE HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; AJC Aug. 22, 2017 Gwinnett sends first-ever batch of bilingual letters to local voters &#8220;Gwinnett County sent out its first-ever batch of bilingual letters to voters last week, a significant milestone in its mission to comply with a new federal designation that requires it to better serve Spanish-speaking residents come election time. The roughly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9863,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851\/revisions\/9863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}