Chicago's 12-language ballots make elections 'harder to monitor,' Illinois GOP chair warns

Chicago voters can cast ballots in 12 different languages this election, an expansion that Illinois Republican Party Chairman Bob Grogan warns is making an already complicated election system harder to independently monitor.Grogan told Fox News Digital the proliferation of versions in languages such as Tagalog, Gujarati and Urdu creates additional challenges for election judges and party observers tasked with ensuring voters receive accurate ballots.He also questioned how many voters need some of the translations, arguing that many immigrants who speak those languages also speak English."It's a solution in search of a problem," Grogan told Fox News Digital.

"It's big city virtue signaling."TRUMP ADMIN SUED OVER ALLEGED ILLEGAL COLLECTION OF SENSITIVE VOTER DATA FROM 47 STATESA voter casts their ballot at a polling location.(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Chicago voters can cast ballots in 12 different languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Tagalog, Polish, Gujarati, Urdu, Ukrainian, Arabic and Russian.Section 203 of the U.S.

Voting Rights Act requires the Chicago Board of Elections to make materials and ballots available in certain precincts for Spanish, Chinese and Hindi speakers, a spokesperson for the elections agency told Fox News Digital.The Board includes the other non-English languages to "maintain uniformity with the languages used by the Cook County Clerk's office under a county ordinance, so that all voters throughout Cook County are afforded equal voting opportunities," the spokesperson added.But Grogan, a former DuPage County auditor for 12 years, said he has "a fair number of Gujarati friends ...

and everyone in their family speaks English.""Gujarati – it's from India, and English is an official language in India," Grogan added.TRUMP ADMIN'S PROPOSED 'ENGLISH-ONLY' HEAD START RULE DRAWS FIRE FROM LOS ANGELES MAYORAL CANDIDATESignage at a polling site inside the Wellington E.Webb Municipal Office Building in Denver, Colorado,...