[workinggirl]

How do these people even register to vote if they don't speak English? What's there to understand in a ballot? There are names, office positions, and party affiliations, that's it! What's there to change?? George Bush to Jorge Bush? I don't get it!
My mother (who has very limited English) doesn't demand that the ballot be in her native language (which ain't Spanish by the way)! What's next? Road signs in Spanish?
I am sorry, but English is just about one of the easiest languages in the world. Nobody requires immigrants to be able to converse on the subject of nuclear physics in English. Knowing essentials of English (even 200 word vocabulary will do) is a minimum of respect an immigrant should show to the adoptive country.

[stanz]

How do they register to vote? Beats me. I feel like a foreigner in my own town which I have lived in all my life.
TV programming in now bilingual in many cases. When you dial up Verizon or Cablevision or most any other large corporation, the recording asks you if your preference is English or Spanish. My Verizon directory is in both Spanish and English. You have to turn it over to read it. I don't understand why immigrants can't be forced to learn English. When I travel abroad, I don't expect the natives to speak to me in English- - -but they always do. Even many of the Afghan warlords speak some English. Why can't Hispanics?