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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CF Rebel who wrote (106202)	6/11/2011 11:02:56 AM
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58% Want English-Only Ballots Saturday, June 11, 2011 Email to a Friend ShareThis.Advertisement When voters goes to the polls, most still want to see their ballots in English only. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 58% of Likely U.S. Voters think election ballots should be printed only in English. Thirty-eight percent (38%) disagree and feel ballots should be printed in both English and Spanish. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Seventy-eight percent (78%) of Republicans and 60% of voters not affiliated with either major party support ballots only in English. Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Democrats prefer bilingual ballots. Americans overwhelmingly believe that English should be the official language of the United States and reject by sizable margins the idea that such a move is racist or a violation of free speech. Seventy-three percent (73%) of voters also continue to feel that when people move to America from other countries, they should adopt this nation’s culture. (Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook. The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on June 6-8, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology. The new numbers are identical to findings from last August but mark a 10-point drop in support for English-only ballots from June 2006. A majority of white voters (64%) favor English-only ballots, while a majority of black voters (71%) want ballots printed in both English and Spanish. Voters of other ethnicities are evenly divided. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of the Political Class think ballots should be bilingual, but 67% of Mainstream voters feel they should be in English only. Seventy-five percent (74%) of all voters believe voters should be required to show photo identification before being allowed to cast their ballot. By a 48% to 29% margin, voters think ineligible people voting is a more common problem than legitimate voters being denied their right to vote. In 2008, then-presidential nominee Barack Obama said that “instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English,” Americans “need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.” But voters strongly disagreed and also did not feel it was important for Americans to be bilingual or trilingual. Most also felt that government documents should be printed in English only.