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To: haqihana who wrote (25261)	1/24/2008 12:25:32 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Federal law already requires bilingual ballots in many jurisdictions. The President recently signed the bill extending that provision of the Voting Rights Act. Take it up with him.

To: haqihana who wrote (25261)	1/24/2008 12:37:33 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 71588

"The Bush administration aggressively promotes multilingual voting. “The Civil Rights Division has made the vigorous enforcement of the [1965] Voting Rights Act’s language-minority requirements one of its primary missions,” explained Rena J. Comisac, principal deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights, to the House Judiciary Constitution Subcommittee on May 4. “Since 2001, this administration has filed more minority language cases under sections 4 and 203 than in the entire previous 26 years in which these provisions have been applicable,” she bragged. But DOJ will not rest! “And the pace is accelerating,” Comisac continued, “with more cases filed and resolved in 2005 than in any previous year, breaking the previous record set in 2004 . . . The enforcement actions include cases in Florida, California, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington. Among these cases were the first suits ever filed under section 203 to protect Filipino and Vietnamese voters,” who vote in those tongues. “Our enforcement program shows the continuing need for the minority language provisions of the Voting Rights Act, and we support their reauthorization,” Comisac concluded. The Bush Administration thus supports legislation to extend multilingual voting through 2031."

To: haqihana who wrote (25261)	1/25/2008 6:56:44 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

"Making bilingual ballots would be like so mixed with languages that the majority of people that vote would not be able to understand what the election was all about. There is a lot if proof that Hillary is bad for the nation but there are many people that will vote for her even if she is bad for the nation." Citizenship used to require a minimal level of english articulation and literacy. The law still requires it, but the people who administer the program undermine the requirements. I agree that Balkanizing ballots is a bad idea. There is nothing wrong with advertising in other languages, but requiring the elections to cater to every subculture that does not want to acculturate is a bad precedent.