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To: RealMuLan who wrote (51403)	7/6/2004 8:01:12 PM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 74559

Group: Asian voters have problems BY ROBERT POLNER Staff Writer July 6, 2004, 5:39 PM EDT For Asian-American voters, the 2003 elections in the city echoed with the jangled chords of the Florida presidential election debacle, an advocacy group charges in a report to be released today. New Yorkers from China and Korea were sometimes met at voting booths by "rude" and "hostile" poll workers, improper requests for identification and a lack of interpreters, according to the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund report. The 33-page study of poll obstacles in the 2003 primary and general election was based on a survey of about 1,000 Asian-American voters at 70 polling sites and unsolicited calls to a multi-lingual hotline run by the group. "Like many minority voters in Florida in 2000," according to the analysis, "Asian Americans in New York City encountered a range of discriminatory barriers when they exercised their right to vote." nynewsday.com