S 8471 — Requires facsimile ballots and sample ballots to be provided in additional languages
Congress · introduced 2025-08-06
Requires a board of elections or political subdivision that is required to provide language assistance to a particular language-minority group to provide facsimile ballots and sample ballots in such language.
Latest action: 2026-01-07 — IN_SENATE_COMM
Sponsors
- John Liu (—, NY-16) — sponsor · 2025-08-06
Action timeline
- · senate — REFERRED TO RULES
- · senate — REFERRED TO ELECTIONS
Text versions
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Inbound (1)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-06 | John Liu | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Liu (—, state_upper NY-16) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Activity
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- 2025-08-06 · sponsored by John Liu (sponsor) · sponsorship