Bi-lingual Poll Workers
@morethanamolehill (1586)
United States
August 17, 2008 11:19am CST
My county is advertising for Bi-lingual Poll workers for the upcoming Presidential Election. Do you think that a person who votes for President or any other position should at least be able to read the ballot in English? Do other countries like France and Mexico have ballots printed in other languages?
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@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
17 Aug 08
Welcome to the new America, were English is just an option. Ballots should be written in English and there is no need for Bi-lingual poll workers. If you cannot speak or read English well enough to tell what the letter D is then they should not be able to vote. Oh am I being to presumptuous by applying that someone who cannot speak English would vote for anyone with the letter D beside their name.
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@morethanamolehill (1586)
• United States
17 Aug 08
Well It is the Democrats that are fighting to get voting rights for felons, Illegal Aliens and even Children if they can. I don't think you are being presumptuous. If they could they would have a reading test for voting, If you can Identify the letter D, you can vote. xD
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@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
18 Aug 08
What I can't believe is that they let you take the DMV eye test in another language!
Someone was up there obviously unable to see and kept saying different things for the same letters and the interpreter was looking at the chart too, of course saying the correct letters.
I'm blind in one eye, so when I saw that, I went "OMG! why didn't I think of that?" Next time I have to take the eye test, I'm pretending I only speak Dutch (and then I'll have to have Dutch speaking members of the family teach me some alphabet so that I can at least make it sound like I'm saying some letters).
@piasabird (1737)
• United States
28 Aug 08
How can they be citizens and not speak the language? Geesh!
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@morethanamolehill (1586)
• United States
31 Aug 08
If we knew they were all citizens, It might be so bad. But in my state, If a person comes into the polling place and says they are me. But the have no ID to prove it, They can sign a waiver and vote in my place. But when I show up I have to prove who I am. Or what If I don't show up?
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@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
18 Aug 08
I think people in this country should be able to read English.
But when I went to vote once, the poll worker asked the lady ahead of me, "Would you like the ballot in Chinese, Japanese, etc.?" and went on to list a bunch of languages that she thought this woman might speak. The lady asked her, "Don't you have one in English?"
Some parts of this state you will go to a hospital and they're actually out of English forms and you're stuck reading Spanish.
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
18 Aug 08
I don't like that when the President tries to make suggestions like that. Like telling us to read more and things like that too.
What about that universal second language? Such as Esperanto (invented language for such a purpose). It seems like it would be more useful than Spanish.
@morethanamolehill (1586)
• United States
18 Aug 08
That's crazy!! They can call me a jingoist, or a xenophobe or whatever, But I just think that if you want to vote here you should at least know what the ballot says in English. And Barack wants us to learn Spanish so that we will be able to say more than "Merci beaucoup"(which is French BTW) when we go to Europe!! I'm not against it I just don't think it's the Presidents place to suggest it. Oh that's right, he's not the president, I keep forgetting. And don't forget to check your tire pressure!
