JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska fell short in training workers for the 2016 elections and providing enough who were bilingual in areas where language assistance for Alaska Native voters is required, according to a recently released memo.

State election officials disputed some of the findings. They said at least one claim was outdated and some issues were outside what is required. But they also said they were working to make improvements.

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights this week released the memo , written by an Alaska advisory committee to the commission and dated in March. A full report was expected later.

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One area the state has focused on for this year’s elections is training for bilingual outreach workers, Division of Elections Director Josie Bahnke said in an interview Wednesday.

“We are very committed to the success of the program,” she said.

Indra Arriaga, elections language manager, said the state this year also is expanding the languages for which it will provide assistance.

Bahnke said the state is in compliance with a U.S. court order that requires it to provide language assistance for Alaska Native voters with limited English proficiency in parts of the state.

Advisory committee Chairwoman Natalie Landreth, who represented Alaska Native plaintiffs in the lawsuit that resulted in the federal order, did not return phone messages seeking comment.

The committee did not independently verify each claim, but federal election observers, attorneys and others raised the issues cited in the memo.

Among the findings: translated written materials required by the order weren’t available in some locations, some poll workers had not been trained and the only bilingual poll worker in one community left hours before polls closed and did not return.

The Division of Elections has no way to assess the effectiveness of its training for poll and outreach workers, the memo says.

The division cannot necessarily verify some numbers cited in the report, Bahnke said. She said one challenge in 2016 was that, in some of the communities, the person who received training didn’t show up and wasn’t “the person who worked on Election Day.”

The state said it had a toll-free number set up for language assistance.