Park City High School senior Alix Finkel has created a Spanish-language voting resource to help residents navigate the Nov. 3 election.

The 17-year-old developed the nonpartisan guide as her legacy project for the Utah Attorney General’s Student Advisory Council, the Park Record reported.

The state program gives high school juniors and seniors experience in civic engagement, public policy and community service. Members must lead a civic engagement project.

Finkel’s guide is available through the voting tab on her Immigration Translation Project website. It includes bilingual election information and links to registration resources, candidate information and the Park Record and KPCW voter guide.

The site labels its statewide guide an unofficial summary and directs users to official sources for controlling information.

Finkel told the Park Record that technical political language can be challenging even for people who speak some English.

“I don’t even understand a lot of them, and I speak English as a first language,” she said.

Utah’s main voter information page is presented in English and links to instructions for using Google Translate. Official Spanish-language resources are also available, including a voter registration form.

The voting resource expands Finkel’s Immigration Translation Project, a youth-led initiative connecting bilingual volunteers with people who need help accessing information.

On the project’s about page, Finkel describes moving to France as a young child and struggling with everyday tasks before learning the language. She moved to Park City in 2021 and enrolled in the school’s Spanish immersion program.

Through the initiative, Finkel has worked with local nonprofits on translated housing information and Know Your Rights posters, according to the Park Record. She used translation tools for the voting project and reviewed the Spanish text herself. She also translated the newspaper’s voter guide.

Finkel told the newspaper she has selected successors to maintain the project after graduation.

Upcoming voting deadlines

Summit County’s deadline to register and receive a mail ballot is 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, according to the County Clerk’s Office.

Eligible residents who miss that deadline can register and vote provisionally in person during early voting or on Election Day.

Early voting runs Oct. 27–31. Ballots must reach the clerk by 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3; a postmark alone does not meet the deadline.