Oklahoma’s Spanish-Speaking, Voting-Age Citizens With Limited English Skills in 2020

More than 21,000 Spanish-speaking Oklahomans lacked access to voter registration forms and ballots in their native language in 2020. Federal law requires political jurisdictions to provide voting materials in the native language of non-English speaking citizens whose population surpasses 10,000 or exceeds 5% of the voting-age population. Only Texas County met these criteria.

The federal government also requires the single-language minority group to have a higher illiteracy rate than the national average. All 77 Oklahoma counties met these criteria in 2020.
Map: Keaton Ross/Oklahoma Watch Source: U.S. Census Bureau Get the data Embed