Officials say Spanish ballots are not required in Georgia county

A northeast Georgia county says it’s exempt from providing Spanish language ballots for at least another five years.

The Times of Gainesville reports that Hall County officials say an evaluation shows the county doesn’t meet the requirement that more than 5% of its voting-age citizens are members of a language minority group that “do not speak or understand English adequately enough to participate in the electoral process.”

Latino activists have been pushing for Spanish language ballots in Hall County, where 28% of all residents are Hispanic, according to Census data.