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To: Mr. Palau who wrote (25360)	1/28/2008 3:16:34 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) of 71588

"...all election material provided to voters..." What if I was literate but only in Dierkese? It happened to be a language passed down by my ancestors and we all were taught it instead of any recognised language. Then does the election commission have an obligation under your plan to translate into my language? What if they have to pay me to do it? How many languages should each election commission be obligated to provide materials in? What if I decide to vote cross town where they translated the materials into Jonese? What is my recourse then? Government regulations are always stretched in bizarre ways that they never were intended to cover. I would say that if a person has the right to vote they have an obligation to become educated. In certain neighborhood that are least able to afford the costs the burden could become more than they could reasonably afford, would it be ok then to use a poll tax to recover the costs so that the people who wanted to vote could pay for the costs of voting? I could do this all day long. The idea of recognising multiple languages as official is wrong in so many ways.

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