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On June 6, 2017, Angelenos in the 34th Congressional District will determine who will fill the seat left vacant by Xavier Becerra, now California’s attorney general. This election comes after the primary election on April 4 was marred by an error that left an undetermined number of Korean-speaking voters with inaccurate sample ballots. The Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters (ROV) is currently in the process of determining whether the procedural mistake was caused by one worker failing to follow set procedures or whether additional procedural errors occurred. Advancing Justice-LA and Korean American Coalition - Los Angeles (KAC) support these efforts to prevent a similar error from happening in the future. 

LOS ANGELES - Asian Americans Advancing Justice - California (Advancing Justice-CA), composed of sister organizations Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus and Advancing Justice - Los Angeles, operated one of the nation’s largest poll monitoring efforts on Election Day, placing over 570 poll monitors in roughly 1400 polling places across Northern California, Southern California, and the Central Valley. Advancing Justice-CA poll monitors found widespread problems with provision of language assistance and a trend of poll workers asking for identification from voters when none was required.

LOS ANGELES, CA – Contrary to mainstream exit poll results, the 2016 national Asian American Election Eve Poll reveals that Asian Americans voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by wide margins (75% to 19%), well-above the 47.7% support she garnered in the general national electorate.  Ethnically, Asian American support for Clinton was as follows: Chinese (69%), Filipino (78%), Indian (87%), Korean (65%), Vietnamese (74%), and Japanese (64%).