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Gwinnett officials: Spanish-language election services cost $700,000 in 2017
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Stephen Day, right, chairman of the Gwinnett County Board of Voter Registrations and Elections, and John Mangano, vice chairman of the Gwinnett board, speak during a Hall County Elections Board meeting to discuss Spanish-language ballots in Gainesville on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018. - photo by David Barnes
Spanish-language ballots cost Gwinnett County an additional $500,000 to $700,000 last year in its state and local elections. Those figures and others from Gwinnett’s experience adopting bilingual ballots in 2017 were discussed in a meeting between Gwinnett and Hall County election officials on Tuesday.