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San Francisco targets non-Chinese candidates using Chinese names on ballots
San Francisco will begin making it more difficult for candidates to use self-submitted Chinese names if they can’t prove they were born with the name written, or if the name is widely known and used by the public. Since 1999, San Francisco — whose Chinese population is about 21.4 percent of its population as a whole – has required ballots to include the candidates’ English names and their translated or transliterated names in Chinese characters. This law has resulted in what the San Francisco Standard described as a “tradition of finding an ‘authentic’ Chinese name” – rather than simply using Chinese characters that, together, sound phonetically similar to their English names. No

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