Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Bilingual Ballots

Generally I don’t see much controversy renewing the voting rights act – except requiring bi-lingual ballots. I thought learning English was a requirement for citizenship. According to Bruce S. Gordon:

“…despite requirements under Section 203 of the VRA, no bilingual assistance was
made available to Vietnamese voters in Harris County, Texas, for the 2003
election.”

Whoa! Houston Texas doesn’t have ballots in Vietnamese. Maybe we should ask the questions "Is this really where we want to go in the United States?"

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