In light of the upcoming 2016 Elections this November, several Hispanic groups have recently filed a request for Georgia County to create Spanish ballots for those who have trouble in the English language, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

However, the Gwinett County in Georgia has cast their votes rejecting the requests of two Latino rights groups voting 4-1, according to Fox News Latino. The results show that the county is not willing to change their English-language ballots for the Latino community in the U.S.

The publication reports that the two groups, the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) and New York's LatinoJustice, have urged that under the federal Voting Rights Act, local governments must provide alternative voting materials for Puerto Ricans who are also U.S. citizens.

The voting results last Tuesday by the Gwinnett Board of Registrations and Elections reveals that the they are not willing to amicably allow the requests. They have announced that if a court orders them to so, then that's the only time that they will comply, per another report from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

However, the Latino rights group are urging that they have already chosen to settle the matter to avoid litigation but the Gwinnett County Board failed to comply. "Unfortunately Gwinnett County chose to continue to be out of compliance with the Voting Rights Act and decided that the Puerto Rican community's voting rights should not be protected," GALEO executive director Jerry Gonzalez told Fox News Latino.

As reported by the publication, Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act protects the rights of bilingual citizens to have bilingual ballots when they are at least 5 percent of the population or 10,000 citizens. Aaccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are approximately 171,000 Latinos in the county.

However, the Gwinnett County Board remains to be firm in their decision pending any court order. "I think GALEO will pursue litigation," Joe Sorenson, the Gwinnett County communications director, said as quoted by the news agency. "If the court decides that GALEO was right and our decision was wrong, we will certainly change it."

Meanwhile, as the majority of the board members voted against the Latino groups' requests, one, however, was in agreement to create bilingual voting materials according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It was reportedly Vice Chairman of the Gwinnett Elections Board Stephen Day who said that the county should comply.

Day says the Gwinnett County should have agreed since it is highly possible that the federal government may be required to create Spanish voting materials under Section 203 of the law, the publication reports.