Voter Language Assistance Services

Person sits at orange table with NYC Civic Engagement Commission banner in various languages waiting to assist voters with interpretation services

About Voter Language Assistance: The NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) provides language services to voters with limited English proficiency during elections. The Voter Language Assistance (VLA) Program provides interpretation services at select poll sites in the following languages:

Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin), French, Haitian Creole, Italian, Korean, Polish, Russian, Urdu, Yiddish

Interpretation Services for AD 36 Special Election:

For the AD 36 Special Election, the VLA Program will provide interpretation services on the following dates:

Early Voting: Saturday, January 31, and Sunday, February 1
Election Day: Tuesday, February 3

The VLA Program will provide interpretation services at the following locations:

January 31 and February 1
Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Avenue, Queens, 11106 - Arabic
Election Day February 3
PS 122-Mamie Fay, 21-21 Ditmars Boulevard, Queens, 11105 - Arabic

You have the right to vote in your language!

Visit our Know Your Rights page to learn about your rights at the polls and watch the public service announcement video in your language.

Our poll site interpretation services supplement, but do not replace or duplicate interpretation services provided by the NYC Board of Elections (BOE); furthermore, they are closely coordinated with the BOE.

Visit the NYC Community Language Profile Map to see detailed information about the languages (other than English) that are spoken by 1.7 million city residents across each of New York’s 59 community districts.

The VLA program relies on an approved methodology to determine which sites to service in every election. To learn about our poll site selection methodology, visit the Methodology for the Voter Language Assistance Program page.