Hopelessly old-fashioned I know, but really do think that knowing English should be a prerequisite for voting.
Great, Florida needs to contact PR and get their voter rolls and a list of PR candidates.
It’s your job to vote not the governments
They have no obligation to help them, they are not part of Florida or any of those counties.
Judge ought to be hung from a lamppost.
They’re being brought into Florida especially. To try to swing the next vote. Might be sorozNazi money, it usually is. They’re u s citizens. We can thank presidrnt wilson for signing that law in 1917. Here is what I believe is the current statute ( subject to anyone here’s correcting this, of course) ——- “.
Sec. 302. [8 U.S.C. 1402] All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after April 11, 1899, and prior to January 13, 1941, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, residing on January 13, 1941, in Puerto Rico or other territory over which the United States exercises rights of sovereignty and not citizens of the United States under any other Act, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States as of January 13, 1941. All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after January 13, 1941, and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, are citizens of the United States at birth.
have to do it in Hudson county
2016
Counties, cities and other jurisdictions required to translate election materials
he Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 was originally enacted to prohibit state and local governments from denying or abridging the right to vote “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude,” a right guaranteed by the 15th Amendment. It applied to political jurisdictions with a history of denying such rights to black Americans and was specifically aimed at removing barriers to voter registration. It was intended to be a temporary remedy.
But in 1975, Congress greatly expanded the Voting Rights Act’s original intent by inserting special protections for “language minorities.” The language minorities singled out for protection under Section 203 of the Act were: American Indians, Asian Americans, Alaskan Natives, and citizens of Spanish Heritage. For the first time in our history, states and counties with substantial populations of these protected language minorities were required to provide ballot and election materials in languages other than English.
Although the bilingual ballot provisions like other parts of the VRA were originally intended to be temporary remedies, they renewed in 1982, 1992, and again in 2006 for another 25 years.
https://proenglish.org/multilingual-ballots/
Way to insult the Puerto Rican community, yer honor!
I could help. How do you say in Spanish, “Republicans vote on Tuesday; Democrats vote on Wednesday.”?
There are 6500 different languages in the world. They better get plenty of ink.
For decades, Puerto Rican’s have voted for thieves with the hope that the thieves will share the loot with them.
And they wonder why people don’t consider Puerto Ricans American citizens?
Knowing the nature of most hispanic cultures these bozos are going to try to have it both ways. That's just they way those people are. Go after them hammer and tongs for back taxes if they vote in Florida.
In February 2018, Walker ruled against Florida and ordered Governor Rick Scott to restore the voting rights of felons after their release from prison
Friggin’ Nazi “judge” meddling in our elections. That’s just great.
“which blocks states from conditioning the right to vote on an ability to understand English.”
The Statute does no such thing.
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FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The major constitutional problem with the English language aspect of the federal Voting Rights Act is this imo. The states have never amended the Constitution to expressly prohibit themselves from denying voting rights on the basis of a citizen not being able to understand English. (Spanish only Puerto Ricans arguably moved to the wrong state.)
Consider that each of the four voting rights amendment that the states have amended to the Constitution expressly gives the feds the power to protect only the criterion that a given voting rights amendment protects.
"Section 1: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.Section 2: The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation [emphasis added].”
"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation [emphasis added]."
"Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation [emphasis added]".
26th Amendment:
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age.Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation [emphasis added]."
In fact, note that a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had clarified that powers that the states haven’t reasonably constitutionally delegated to the feds are prohibited to the feds.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Also, note that the Court had clarified in Minor v. Happersett that citizenship does not automatically guarantee the right to vote.
“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
So what this misguided judge is doing imo, is not only trying to interfere with the constitutionally unchecked 10th Amendment-protected power of the sovereign states to discriminate against voters on the basis of language skills, but he is unthinkingly attempting to unconstitutionally expand the fed’s constitutionally limited powers by dong so.
Corrections, insights welcome.
Have someone who doesn’t speak Spanish work on them - they can mess them up as easily and innocently as a non—English speaker can get confused with the ballots - would be highly prejudicial to say a non-Spanish speaker can’t work on them.