August marks two important anniversaries in the fight for voting rights: 60 years since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and 50 years since a bipartisan majority in Congress renewed the law, and added one of the Act’s most transformative expansions—Section 203, which supports language services for voters with limited English.

While the broader Voting Rights Act is rightly celebrated for knocking down barriers to the ballot box, especially for Black Americans, Section 203 deserves its own recognition as a civil rights achievement that expanded access to the vote for millions of Latino and Asian American immigrant voters, as well as for Native Americans and Alaskan Natives who were finally able to get translated election materials and assistance in their own languages.

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