Articles Tagged: LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens)

The charges are the first after Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate in March claimed 277 Iowans without U.S. citizenship illegally voted or registered to vote in recent elections.

The Iowa Supreme Court has reversed a district court decision that cleared the way for election officials to distribute voter materials in languages other than English.

A federal judge on Sunday denied a request by civil rights groups to block a directive from Iowa’s top elections official to challenge the ballots of more than 2,000 Iowans whose U.S. citizenship is unclear just days ahead of Tuesday’s election.

A federal judge on Friday heard arguments and pledged a quick ruling in a lawsuit over Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate’s directive that poll workers challenge the ballots of 2,176 legal residents whose citizenship status is unclear to his office.

The Iowa Supreme Court pieced together so-called legislative immunity from multiple places in the Iowa Constitution, and ruled it extends to communications with third parties

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird has appealed a recent district court decision that would allow certain voting materials to be printed in languages other than English.

“I consider myself a Latino who wants to help Latinos,” said Monica Vallejo, who’s been instrumental in starting programs such as Festival Latino, which takes place Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at McGrath Amphitheatre for the 11th year.

Seeing a lack of youth programming for Latinos in Cedar Rapids, LULAC started Cedar Rapids’ first Ballet Folklórico group. “Fuerzas Culturales” is practicing three times a week before the troupe’s Sept. 18 performance at Festival Latino.

Al ver la falta de programación para jóvenes latinos, LULAC creó “Fuerzas Culturales,” el primer grupo de Ballet Folklórico en Cedar Rapids. Las prácticas del grupo culminarán en un espectáculo el 18 de Septiembre en el Festival Latino.