Posted on 10/27/2010 1:50:20 PM PDT by Envisioning
I have been seeing these signs, or ones very similar, at polling places all around the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex. Can someone explain this to me? Should you really be able to vote if you don't read english?
Voting ping!
All our ballots are in English and Spanish. Aren’t yours?
Who do I call? Will they care? Will they do anything about it? What country is this again?
Your county elections board, I guess. Probably not. No. And still trying to figure that last one out.
I’m sure there will be lots of folks in purple t-shirts to assist them.
I believe so. Why is that again?
Call your new rep on Nov. 3rd and get the law changed.
From what I remember, if a certain percentage of
constituants are non-engrish speaking, all gov’t
documents in that area must be printed in the
non-engrish speaking person’s native tounge.
It is legal. BS, but legal.
Better than that. It is mandatory that we have bilingual workers at the polls or we will be in trouble with the BOplenty admin.
We were warned.
Only if you're a wetback.
Just be glad it’s not in Mandarin..................
In fact, I had to so a double take on your title to figure out it was in spanish because I just don't see it anymore, I just translate it in some obscure process in the back of my brain. Same with running across someone that only speaks spanish. I just shift gears and move on, lots of times without knowing that I did it. It's part of the Texas culture, like it or not.
/johnny
Liberalism caters to the Government welfare, bureaucratic complex.
Ok, hear it is.....
Language
Applicants for naturalization must be able to read, write, speak, and understand words in ordinary usage in the English language. Applicants exempt from this requirement are those who on the date of filing:
•have been residing in the United States subsequent to a lawful admission for permanent residence for at least 15 years and are over 55 years of age;
•have been residing in the United States subsequent to a lawful admission for permanent residence for at least 20 years and are over 50 years of age; or
•have a medically determinable physical or mental impairment, where the impairment affects the applicant’s ability to learn English.
This is still BS and yes, my tagline is sarcasm......
Ballots are printed in MULTIPLE languages at taxpayer expense. You ought to see the dozens and dozens of different languages you can choose from in California alone!
All perfectly legal, friends. All paid for by YOUR tax dollars.
Been going on for decades.
Votacion Hoy! Aqui!
I know what “aqui” means. I had two years of high school spanish 40 years ago. So... these morons don’t know what “here” means??? This is just a bunch of posing crap. Posing as if we care about spanish-speakers. Putting “aqui” on a sign serves no real purpose except to pose. And I can only ask why? Why must we pose?
Not “VOTE AQUI”!
It’s VOTE AQUA BUDDHA!
Get it right!
It is the language our Constitution was written in, and that our laws are written in.
If it were the official language, all government documents would be in that language and there could be no requirement to accommodate those who do not speak English by printing up ballots and such in their native language.
SOD. Speak English or Die! ;)
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