Park City High senior builds Spanish-language voting guide for midterms
Alix Finkel, a member of the Utah Attorney General's Student Advisory Council, created the nonpartisan guide as her legacy project.
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A Park City High School senior has built a Spanish-language voting guide for Utah's upcoming midterm elections, the Park Record reported. Alix Finkel created the nonpartisan resource as the legacy project for her work on the Utah Attorney General's Student Advisory Council. [1]
Finkel said few Spanish-language resources exist for voters. The 2024 American Community Survey counted 4,110 Summit County residents and 3,948 Wasatch County residents who speak Spanish at home, according to the Park Record. The state's official voter site, vote.utah.gov, is published only in English and asks users who need other languages to use browser translation tools. [1]
Finkel's guide is on the website of her Immigration Translation Project, which she founded a few years ago to provide translated documents for Spanish speakers in the Park City area. A new voting tab links to guides and forms in Spanish, plus individual candidate websites statewide. She did the translations herself using a mix of translation tools and then read through them to check that they made sense. She also translated The Park Record's voter guide. [1]
Finkel, 17, will not be 18 in time to vote in the midterms. She said she plans to keep the tool updated for each election and has chosen people she trusts to take it over after she graduates. [1]
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