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To: Towsoncrs

I can actually read that poster ( Lived and worked in Taiwan for some years ).

But is the ballot going to be printed in Chinese too?

What about Korean?

And if they do that, what’s to stop them from spending money to print the ballots in other languages? Where does it end?


11 posted on 11/03/2014 12:43:21 PM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind
More Foreign-Born Americans Voting in Native Languages

Election materials in the U.S. are not only available in English. In 25 states, 248 counties provide ballots and other materials in a variety of languages, and they are required by law to do so.

This can be expensive for counties, and some argue they should not have to pay the bill. Others say it is a constitutional right of citizens who don’t speak English.

Every 10 years the U.S. Census releases a list of counties that are required to provide ballots in different languages. The Voting Rights Act says that if 10,000 or five percent of citizens in a county speak a given non-English language, that county is required to provide election materials in that language. Ballots were provided in nine Asian languages throughout the U.S. this year.

Los Angeles County in California was required to provide ballots not only in Spanish, but in Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. Three languages were new this year: Khmer, Thai and Hindi.

12 posted on 11/03/2014 1:28:11 PM PST by kabar
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