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Community advocates troubleshoot language barriers and voter confusion in North Akron Doug Livingston, Akron Beacon Journal © Jeff Lange, Akron Beacon Journal North Hill resident Ajino Wah voted in a presidential election in November for the first time since becoming a citizen in 2011. Saw Ajino was a boy when he fled Burma for the Thailand border. Ethnic minorities like him have fought seven decades for the government to recognize them as a people in their own right. We are a nation. We have a language, he said. [But] we have never been able to vote or participate in any political activity like that.

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