Voting Rights Act

According to a 1975 amendment to the Voting Rights Act, a jurisdiction is required to provide non-English language materials and assistance when the number of U.S. citizens of voting age in a single language group in that jurisdiction number more than 10,000, is more than 5 percent of all voting-age citizens, on an Indian reservation where that language group exceeds 5 percent of all reservation residents, or the illiteracy rate of the group is higher than the national illiteracy rate.