芝加哥选民在本次选举中可以用12种不同语言投票，这一扩展举措引来伊利诺伊州共和党主席鲍勃·格罗根警告，称这让本已复杂的选举系统更难以独立监督。
Chicago voters can cast ballots in 12 different languages this election, an expansion that Illinois Republican Party Chairman Bob Grogan warns is making an already complicated election system harder to independently monitor.
格罗根对福克斯新闻数字版表示，他加禄语、古吉拉特语和乌尔都语等语言版本的增多，给负责确保选民收到准确选票的选举法官和党派观察员带来了额外挑战。他还质疑有多少选民需要其中一些翻译版本，认为说这些语言的许多移民也会说英语。
Grogan told Fox News Digital the proliferation of versions in languages such as Tagalog, Gujarati and Urdu creates additional challenges for election judges and party observers tasked with ensuring voters receive accurate ballots. He also questioned how many voters need some of the translations, arguing that many immigrants who speak those languages also speak English.
格罗根对福克斯新闻数字版说：“这是在寻找问题的解决方案。这是大城市的道德表演。”芝加哥选民可用12种语言投票：英语、西班牙语、中文、印地语、韩语、他加禄语、波兰语、古吉拉特语、乌尔都语、乌克兰语、阿拉伯语和俄语。
"It's a solution in search of a problem," Grogan told Fox News Digital. "It's big city virtue signaling." Chicago voters can cast ballots in 12 different languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Tagalog, Polish, Gujarati, Urdu, Ukrainian, Arabic and Russian.
美国《投票权法案》第203条要求芝加哥选举委员会在特定选区为说西班牙语、中文和印地语的选民提供材料和选票，该机构的一位发言人告诉福克斯新闻数字版。该发言人补充说，委员会增设其他非英语语言，是为了“与库克县书记官办公室根据县条例使用的语言保持一致，使库克县全境的所有选民都享有平等的投票机会”。
Section 203 of the U.S. Voting Rights Act requires the Chicago Board of Elections to make materials and ballots available in certain precincts for Spanish, Chinese and Hindi speakers, a spokesperson for the elections agency told Fox News Digital. The Board includes the other non-English languages to "maintain uniformity with the languages used by the Cook County Clerk's office under a county ordinance, so that all voters throughout Cook County are afforded equal voting opportunities," the spokesperson added.
但曾任杜佩奇县审计长12年的格罗根表示，他“有不少古吉拉特裔朋友……他们全家都说英语。”格罗根补充道：“古吉拉特语——它来自印度，而英语是印度的官方语言之一。”
But Grogan, a former DuPage County auditor for 12 years, said he has "a fair number of Gujarati friends ... and everyone in their family speaks English." "Gujarati – it's from India, and English is an official language in India," Grogan added.
芝加哥选举委员会向福克斯新闻数字版提供的数据显示，在三月初选期间，一些不太常用的语言选项仅占极少数选票。根据委员会的数据，仅有9张选票使用了英语-古吉拉特语选项，15张使用了英语-乌尔都语，10张使用了英语-阿拉伯语，英语-俄语和英语-乌克兰语各使用了25张。
Data provided to Fox News Digital by the Chicago Board of Elections shows that some of the less commonly used language options accounted for only a handful of ballots cast during the March primary. Just nine ballots were cast using the English-Gujarati option, while 15 used English-Urdu, 10 used English-Arabic and 25 each used English-Russian and English-Ukrainian, according to the Board's figures.
其他语言版本的使用频率较高，包括4,474张英语-波兰语选票，2,183张英语-中文选票，664张英语-印地语选票，352张英语-韩语选票和100张英语-他加禄语选票。
Other translations were used more frequently, including 4,474 English-Polish ballots, 2,183 English-Chinese ballots, 664 English-Hindi ballots, 352 English-Korean ballots and 100 English-Tagalog ballots.
格罗根还质疑为何语言要求在不同县界之间会有巨大差异，他指出芝加哥提供12种语言的触屏选票，而附近的杜佩奇县提供的语言选项较少。
Grogan also questioned why language requirements can change substantially across county lines, noting that Chicago offers touchscreen ballots in 12 languages while nearby DuPage County offers fewer language options.
格罗根说：“皮奥里亚可能有古吉拉特语人口。你会认为在这方面也会有一定的统一性。”除了质疑部分翻译的必要性外，格罗根还提出了一个更广泛的监管担忧，他认为选举法官和党派观察员无法独立审查他们不懂的语言书写的选票。
"You can have a Gujarati population in Peoria," Grogan said. "You would think that there would be some more uniformity to all of that as well." Beyond questioning the need for some of the translations, Grogan raised a broader concern about oversight, arguing that election judges and party observers cannot independently scrutinize ballots written in languages they do not understand.
然而，芝加哥选举委员会予以反驳，告诉福克斯新闻数字版称，委员会拥有内部员工协助翻译选票和标识，并在选举前协助多语言媒体。委员会还表示，选民在特定条件下被允许携带“翻译人员协助他们理解和填写选票”。
However, the Chicago Board of Elections pushed back, telling Fox News Digital that it has in-house staff who help translate ballots and signs and assist multilingual media ahead of elections. It also said voters are allowed to bring "interpreter[s] to assist them in understanding and casting their ballot" under certain conditions.
当被问及多语言法官时，委员会指出，截至周四，为11月大选指派的7,218名选举法官中，有810名是多语言候选人。据委员会称，这些多语言法官包括西班牙语、中文、印地语、乌尔都语、古吉拉特语、波兰语、韩语和他加禄语的使用者。
When asked about multilingual judges, the Board noted that of the 7,218 election judges assigned for November's general election as of Thursday, 810 are multilingual candidates. Those multilingual judges include speakers of Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, Polish, Korean and Tagalog, according to the Board.
当被追问是否认为增加语言会造成选举安全漏洞时，格罗根表示，风险部分取决于翻译选票的使用范围有多广。
Pressed on whether he believes the additional languages create an election security vulnerability, Grogan said the risk depends in part on how widely the translated ballots are used.
总体而言，选举委员会的数据显示，在三月的初选期间，共投出7,857张多语言选票，约占全市投出的424,564张选票的1.85%。
Overall, the Board's figures show 7,857 multilingual ballots were cast during the March primary, representing about 1.85% of the 424,564 ballots cast citywide.
“我认为这肯定会让监督变得更难，”格罗根说。“如果某种语言只投出一张选票，那是一个非常小的漏洞。如果突然在某个非常小众、鲜为人知的语言中出现10,000张选票，那就会增加风险。”福克斯新闻数字频道曾向芝加哥选举委员会询问邮寄选票提供多少种语言，但截至发稿时未收到回复。
"I think it certainly makes it harder to monitor," Grogan said. "If there is one ballot cast in that language, that's a very small vulnerability you have. If all of a sudden we have 10,000 in some very small, poorly understood language, then that increases the risk." Fox News Digital asked the Chicago Board of Elections how many languages are available for mail-in ballots but did not receive a response in time for publication.