A federal judge ordered dozens of Florida counties to provide Spanish-language ballots and other election materials to Puerto Rican voters displaced by Hurricane Maria, ahead of the March 2020 presidential primary elections.
Last summer, a coalition of advocacy groups sued Florida’s secretary of state and election supervisors of 32 counties in the state for failing to provide ballots and other voting materials to thousands of Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans who had been forced to relocate following the massive storm that destroyed much of the island.
