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Each joined advocates in their push to allow transliteration.

Written by ABC AUDIO on December 3, 2022

Gov. Charlie Baker signed a home rule petition on Wednesday to allow Malden to transliterate candidate names on future ballots. (Shutterstock)

MALDEN, MA — Efforts to transliterate candidate names into Chinese characters on future Malden election ballots cleared a final hurdle this week with a bill signing by Gov. Charlie Baker.

Previously tied up in the state legislature, the bill moved to Baker’s desk last month.

Now in effect, the law will allow Malden to display candidates’ names in Chinese characters next to their Latin-alphabet names. With this legislation, Malden has become just the second municipality in the state to transliterate ballots, following Boston.

Advocates have pushed for this change, saying it will improve election accessibility for Chinese-speaking Malden residents who may know a preferred candidate by their common transliterated name in Chinese-language media, rather than their Latin-letter name.

Filed in the legislature, though, the bill to let Malden transliterate ballots initially stalled over concerns about confusion in transliterations. Names can’t translate directly between Latin letters and Chinese characters. Secretary of State Bill Galvin, as such, had noted concerns as recently as August about feared imprecise phonetic transliterations.

“Transliteration opens up a degree of uncertainty that’s not good to have in the ballot process,” he told the Boston Globe with regard to transliteration efforts in Boston.

Advocates and Malden legislators gathered at City Hall earlier this year, calling on state officials to move the city’s transliteration bill forward.

Malden Mayor Gary Christenson was at the event alongside State Sen. Jason Lewis and State Reps. Steve Ultrino and Paul Donato.

Each joined advocates in their push to allow transliteration.

“When you cannot read the ballot, we’ve denied you the right to vote and that is just un-American,” Ultrino said at the time.

Malden is subject to a provision of the federal Voting Rights Act that requires certain accessibility measures in communities where a considerable population of eligible voters speak a single language that is not English.

Advocates have, at times, criticized the city for shortcomings in election accessibility, pointing to poorly translated materials or a lack of translation altogether, among other things.

Groups sat down with the city in recent months, hashing out a memorandum of understanding days before this year’s state primary elections detailing specific accessibility measures that the city will take in the future.

Contacted after voting in September, stakeholders told Patch the city had made progress.

There was still more to do, some of those same stakeholders said, including ballot transliteration with approval from the state legislature and the governer.

With that approval now in hand, members of Malden’s legislative delegation including Lewis, Donato, Ultrino and State Rep. Kate Lipper Garabedian all celebrated this bill signing, which took place on Wednesday.

Christenson separately thanked area groups that advocated for greater accessibility, crediting this week’s legislation to “a team effort between legislators, community advocates, with the full support of the administration and the City Council.”

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Officials on Friday said Malden will transliterate names for all future statewide and general elections. The Malden Board of Registrars of Voting will handle transliterating the names, which it will then provide to the Secretary of State.

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