US violated Asian Americans' voting rights in 2020 despite efforts to improve

Cities such as Malden, Massachusetts are working to comply with rights laws to accommodate a growing voting bloc

In 2007, Fiona Yu was looking forward to voting in Boston's local elections for the first time - a year after she became a US citizen. Yu, now 60, had immigrated to the United States from Hong Kong where she grew up poor, and earned a high school diploma through night school in the US.

On election ay, Yu went to her polling station in Allston, a neighbourhood in Boston. But a poll worker was confused about her new home address. As a recent immigrant, Yu's English was limited and there was no Chinese interpreter. The poll worker did not let her vote, even though Yu had proper documentation of her new address. Nor did she give her a provisional ballot.