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To: Brumar89 who wrote (345531)	8/4/2007 5:19:03 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578460

Shouldn't it be linked to inability to understand English rather than one's "first language" (which btw is difficult to determine for a bilingual person)? While there are lots of people who speak Spanish, Chinese, etc, I doubt there are many American citizens unable to understand English. I don't know of any and I have relatives by marriage that are hispanic, including the other set of grandparents to my grandchildren who are immigrants). Perhaps in Puerto Rico, but then that is a territory and they generally don't vote in our elections. Its one thing to have enough English vocabulary to buy eggs or make a bank deposit. Its quite another to be fluent enough to understand complicated concepts like choosing between spending for a freeway or light rail. In the past, party members would tell these people how to vote. I doubt you want that to happen particularly since Democrats are closer to the immigrant population than Republicans. Hence, jurisdications began providing bilingual voting pamphlets where there were sizeable ethnic minorities in the community so that these people would not have their votes 'stolen' by one party or another.