Vote in NYC! Проголосовать в Нью-Йорке! التصويت في مدينة نيويورك! NYC میں Vote! Vote à New York!

Pictured: some of NYC's new voter registration forms. Photos by John V. Santore

BROOKLYN, NY — New York City has translated its voter registration forms into five new languages: Russian, Urdu, Arabic, French, and Haitian Creole.

The forms are available online in the following 10 languages:

• Arabic (العربية)
• Haitian Creole (Kreyòl Ayisyen)
• French (Français)
• Russian (Русский язык)
• Urdu (اردو)
• Spanish (Español)
• English
• Bengali (বাংলা)
• Chinese (繁體中文)
• Korean (한국어)

Registration forms can be printed out and mailed to: Board of Elections, 32 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10275-0067.

You can also deliver your form to your local Board of Elections office, or pick up a form there. Forms in all ten languages are also available at New York City public library locations.

To register to vote in New York City, you must be a U.S. citizen who has lived in New York for at least 30 days. You also must be 18 or older on election day.

To vote in this year's presidential election on Nov. 8, the Board of Elections must receive your registration form by Oct. 19. If you mail the form in, it must be postmarked by Oct. 14.

At a press conference in Brooklyn on Thursday, Nisha Agarwal, who head's the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, said that nearly half of Brooklyn's residents speak a language other than English at home.

Following the new translations, the city has forms that can be read by about 80 percent of its residents, Agarwal said.

Nisha Agarwal speaks Thursday, surrounded by city and elected officials

NYC is also working on translating registration forms into six new languages: Yiddish, Italian, Polish, Greek, Albanian and Tigalog. Agarwal said those forms should be ready before the registration deadline for this year's presidential primary.

Under state law, you can bring someone with you to the polls to help translate the ballot or other polling information for you.

At Thursday's press conference, Councilman Mathieu Eugene, an immigrant from Haiti whose district includes Kensington, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Ditmas Park, Crown Heights and Flatbush, urged everyone in the city to participate in upcoming elections.

"To all my fellow immigrants, please take the opportunity [to] register to vote," Eugene said. "Now it's in your language. There is no excuse! Empower yourself. Empower your community."