Posted on 08/15/2018 6:26:05 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A candidate running to be Arizona’s next secretary of state said the state should stop offering ballots printed in other languages and provide them only in English.
The Arizona Republic reported Wednesday that Republican candidate Steve Gaynor made the proposal during a candidate forum over the weekend.
"My printing plant in L.A. printed an information pamphlet not too long ago. It had 18 languages on it," said Gaynor, who owns a printing business that creates pamphlets for California elections, according to the Republic.
"I would be the first to say it should be ... ballots, information pamphlets, all the material in our country, should be in English,” he said.
Video of the event, including Gaynor’s comments, was posted on Facebook by the right-wing group Patriot Movement AZ.
The landmark Voting Rights Act requires that some districts provide election materials in other languages for minority language citizen groups.
The Republic reported that 10 of Arizona’s 15 countries are required to provide materials in languages other than English, and that about 900,000 Arizonans are eligible to receive such a ballot.
Secretaries of state, like those in the position for which Gaynor is running, oversee state elections.
Gaynor told the newspaper in a follow-up interview that he favors Native Americans in the state being allowed to vote in "their native language" because their land is sovereign.
He said that the counties should be able to decide if they want to print materials in Spanish.
"I think it should be up to the states to decide what they want to do with regard to their voting materials," Gaynor told the Republic. "But I think the faster any immigrant learns English, the quicker they assimilate into American society."
His campaign manager said Gaynor would comply with federal election law if he were elected as secretary of state, the newspaper reported.
Gaynor, who has described himself as "100 percent pro-Trump,” said during the candidate forum on Saturday that he wants lawmakers to repeal the election law.
"We need to do one thing to solve this problem, have 60 Republican senators who have the guts to vote the way they need to vote," he said, according to the newspaper.
Agree 100%.
If someone reading this has any knowledge about the State of New Mexico, whether or not the courts there accept filings in Spanish, could please comment.
I left So Calif 25 years ago.
I remember that ballots & election pamphlets were printed in over 68 languages & dialects.
Travesty.
Apparently he supports Geronimo.
Just think how different this country would be now if English First had been adopted. The public schools alone would have benefitted imensely. . . not to mention the taxpayer.
We have that Spanish carpola on the ballot in GA. This year they were handing out stickers to wear afterwards that said “,I voted”. Then underneath “,yo vote,” I refused to take one.
Anyway you can, stop the endless pandering and prizes to foreign nationals/illegals. If not, the prizes and pandering it will never end and will reach a point where the legitimate citizens will become second class undesirables who will be forced into subsidizing millions of these people. I wish I were joking.
Leftist socialist took the crown jewel of America and trashed it, literally flooded it with millions of foreign nationals and illegal aliens to the point where legitimate citizens are outnumbered and outvoted all while being forced to pay for their replacements.
My understanding is that the Federal govt has mandated that if you have more than a certain percentage of Spanish speakers on the rolls you have to print ballots in bilingual. That’s what the state is telling us. I’m like it they can’t speak English what are the chances they are legal to vote?
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