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The ballots in my community have been bi-lingual for years. It's not only annoying to go to the polls and try to find one person who works there who understands you, but also, to try to figure out which side of the ballot is printed in a language you can understand. At one time, this community had a huge population of Cuban refugees who assimilated and made every attempt to learn English and fit into the community. Now, we are dealing with Mexicans and Central Americans who refuse to change their cultural identity. It's unfair. When I write my Congressman and tell him my feelings, he NEVER responds. He, himself, is Hispanic and is concerned only with issues which benefit Hispanic Americans. So, the only alternative is to relocate and sacrifice the community to them which has been the custom or shut up and put up.

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.