The city of San Francisco recently began cracking down on the practice of candidates choosing their own Chinese names to appear on a ballot as a way to appeal to Asian American voters. Now, a woman running for office says the new policy didn’t take into account people like her.
Jade Tu claims she’s had a Chinese name since birth and said that she’s having to jump through hoops just to prove it. Tu added that her mother has always called her by her given Chinese name.
“I know who I am,” she said. “My Chinese name is ‘徐加儀.’ I was given that name to me when I was born and it should not take all of these steps for me to prove it.”
Another episode of ballot speech.