As a first-generation Mexican-American, Rosangela Ortiz had a job familiar to many children of immigrants: explaining the intricacies of American democracy to her naturalized citizen parents.

“They depended on me to be like, ‘There’s an election — this is who’s on the ballot,’ or just explain it to them,” said Ortiz, who now helps run local elections as chief deputy of the Santa Fe County Bureau of Elections.

It was a role she reprised this spring, when the County Clerk’s Office launched a slate of community advisory boards to provide election guidance tailored for underrepresented groups. One of the boards focuses on providing dual-language election information to Spanish-speaking residents, while others center on veterans, young people and voters with disabilities.

“We depend a lot on

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