Read the report<\/a><\/p>\r\nDuring the November 2024 general elections, California Common Cause and the Asian Law Caucus led one of the largest nonpartisan election observer programs in California. We ran our program with support from the Lawyers\u2019 Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area and Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Southern California. Our organizations worked together to train nonpartisan volunteers and observe polling sites in 34 counties across Northern, Central, and Southern California. In total, our program recruited more than 520 volunteer observers and monitored over 1,400 polling sites across the state.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThis report identifies ways in which California counties can continue to improve the in-person voting experience, particularly for voters with disabilities and voters who speak non-English languages. For example, observers in San Francisco county found that reference ballot translations in Burmese were consistently inaccurate, noting that the characters were grammatically switched and did not translate properly.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nOther recommendations include:<\/strong>\r\n<\/span>\r\n\r\n \t