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In order to vote you have to be a citizen. To become a citizen you have to know some English. Why do they print ballots in other languages?
58% Want English-Only Ballots - Rasmussen Reports
Jim...Jim...Jim is that you????
Jim...Jim...Jim is that you????
Ooh. Where did that big post about the Statue of Liberty go?
In order to vote you have to be a citizen. To become a citizen you have to know some English. Why do they print ballots in other languages?
58% Want English-Only Ballots - Rasmussen Reports
In order to vote you have to be a citizen. To become a citizen you have to know some English. Why do they print ballots in other languages?
58% Want English-Only Ballots - Rasmussen Reports™
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Emma Lazarus, 1883
In order to vote you have to be a citizen. To become a citizen you have to know some English. Why do they print ballots in other languages?
58% Want English-Only Ballots - Rasmussen Reports
In order to vote you have to be a citizen. To become a citizen you have to know some English. Why do they print ballots in other languages?
58% Want English-Only Ballots - Rasmussen Reports
Probably because the amount of English you need to know to acquire citizenship doesn't necessarily guarantee that you comprehend written English well enough to decipher the initiative descriptions on the ballot, and a lot of immigrants feel more comfortable with their native, and more fluent, language.
Not saying I agree with the idea, but I'd say that's the most likely reason.
In order to vote you have to be a citizen. To become a citizen you have to know some English. Why do they print ballots in other languages?
58% Want English-Only Ballots - Rasmussen Reports
In order to be a citizen, you do have to know "some" English. I think they print ballots in other languages in order to make it possible for those who knew enough English to become a citizen to vote, but who might not be able to understand the writing on the ballots. As you know, ballots contain more than just names. They also contain detailed arguments pro and con on the people running and the issues before the electorate.
Don't forget, this is America. You know that lady who stands in the harbor in New York, right?
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Emma Lazarus, 1883
Secondly, are you suggesting that they are using the ballot to inform themselves of candidate's positions, and issues? They have no prior knowledge? How did they know where to go to vote? Are street signs in hebrew?
In order to vote you have to be a citizen. To become a citizen you have to know some English. Why do they print ballots in other languages?
58% Want English-Only Ballots - Rasmussen Reports
In order to vote you have to be a citizen. To become a citizen you have to know some English. Why do they print ballots in other languages?
Arizona voters passed an English-only law as an Amendment to the Arizona Constitution adopted through a petition drive that culminated in a general election in November 1988. The Amendment provides that English was the official language of the State of Arizona, and that the State and its political subdivisions must "act" only in English. In April 1998, the Arizona Supreme Court held that the amendment violated the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in that it adversely impacted the constitutional rights of non-English speaking persons regarding access to their government, and that it limited political speech of elected officials and public employees. The court also held that the amendment violates the EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE of the FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT to the United States Constitution in that it unduly burdens core First Amendment rights of a specific class without materially advancing a legitimate STATE INTEREST. Plaintiffs in the case were four elected officials, five state employees, and one public school teacher. All plaintiffs are bilingual and regularly communicated in both Spanish and English as private citizens and during the performance of government business. The court noted that although 21 states and 40 municipalities have official English statutes, most of those provisions are substantially less encompassing and less proscriptive than Arizona's Amendment. In mid January 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court denied review of the case, then known as Ruiz v. Hull, 191 Ariz. 441, 957 P.2d 984 (1998).
English-Only Laws - Further Readings - Language, Official, Government, Court, United, and Amendment
In order to vote you have to be a citizen. To become a citizen you have to know some English. Why do they print ballots in other languages?
Because to do otherwise would be un-Constitutional:
Arizona voters passed an English-only law as an Amendment to the Arizona Constitution adopted through a petition drive that culminated in a general election in November 1988. The Amendment provides that English was the official language of the State of Arizona, and that the State and its political subdivisions must "act" only in English. In April 1998, the Arizona Supreme Court held that the amendment violated the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in that it adversely impacted the constitutional rights of non-English speaking persons regarding access to their government, and that it limited political speech of elected officials and public employees. The court also held that the amendment violates the EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE of the FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT to the United States Constitution in that it unduly burdens core First Amendment rights of a specific class without materially advancing a legitimate STATE INTEREST. Plaintiffs in the case were four elected officials, five state employees, and one public school teacher. All plaintiffs are bilingual and regularly communicated in both Spanish and English as private citizens and during the performance of government business. The court noted that although 21 states and 40 municipalities have official English statutes, most of those provisions are substantially less encompassing and less proscriptive than Arizona's Amendment. In mid January 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court denied review of the case, then known as Ruiz v. Hull, 191 Ariz. 441, 957 P.2d 984 (1998).
English-Only Laws - Further Readings - Language, Official, Government, Court, United, and Amendment
A given jurisdiction may establish English as its official language but must still accommodate non-English speakers.
And as we all know Puerto Ricans are American citizens, with equal voting rights once they reside in the US proper. Many Puerto Ricans do not speak English. You may not compel an American citizen to learn English as a condition of exercising his Constitutional right to vote.
In order to vote you have to be a citizen. To become a citizen you have to know some English. Why do they print ballots in other languages?
58% Want English-Only Ballots - Rasmussen Reports
In order to be a citizen, you do have to know "some" English. I think they print ballots in other languages in order to make it possible for those who knew enough English to become a citizen to vote, but who might not be able to understand the writing on the ballots. As you know, ballots contain more than just names. They also contain detailed arguments pro and con on the people running and the issues before the electorate.
Don't forget, this is America. You know that lady who stands in the harbor in New York, right?
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Emma Lazarus, 1883
They know some english, but don't understand the writing
In order to vote you have to be a citizen. To become a citizen you have to know some English. Why do they print ballots in other languages?
58% Want English-Only Ballots - Rasmussen Reports
Because liberals despise everything US and pander to and embrace all things foreign..
In the progressive mind being a US citizen and speaking English should be an embarrassment, because we're the "big bad ignorant wolf" in the world allegedly.
Its the liberals goal to get as many foreigners here as possible, preferably ethnic foreigners because they absolutely despise the notion we're majority Caucasian and speak English...
You have to destroy culture before you can create the communist state. Of course the non-English speakers will vote for the communists because its the communists that pander to them, and support them with taxpayer dollars...
So it has to do with disgust and communism...
Don't forget, this is America. You know that lady who stands in the harbor in New York, right?
In order to vote you have to be a citizen. To become a citizen you have to know some English. Why do they print ballots in other languages?
58% Want English-Only Ballots - Rasmussen Reports
Because liberals despise everything US and pander to and embrace all things foreign..
In the progressive mind being a US citizen and speaking English should be an embarrassment, because we're the "big bad ignorant wolf" in the world allegedly.
Its the liberals goal to get as many foreigners here as possible, preferably ethnic foreigners because they absolutely despise the notion we're majority Caucasian and speak English...
You have to destroy culture before you can create the communist state. Of course the non-English speakers will vote for the communists because its the communists that pander to them, and support them with taxpayer dollars...
So it has to do with disgust and communism...
Have to make it party political?
