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To: Tamzee
Specifically, it charges that the city hasn't adequately recruited and trained bilingual poll workers, failed to provide sufficient election-related materials in Spanish, and prohibited Hispanic voters with limited English from choosing someone to help them inside the voting booth, which law permits.

I knew a guy who was an EMT in NYC and he said that when he arrived on the scene of an accident, the Hispanics would be telling him everything that happened in English. The minute a cop car showed up, it was No hablo Engles and they would require an interpreter.

He never believed that Hispanics were not fluent enough in English because he saw so much faking it.

My grandparents came over heere from *the old country* without knowing English and they learned it. What a novel concept.

That being said, the only issue here is that they don't want someone to find out about all the voter fraud going on. Otherwise, the dems would lose.

6 posted on 10/30/2006 9:31:07 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

They do the same thing here in California, and I suspect, everywhere. I say that if you can't speak, read, write, and comprehend English, then you CAN'T VOTE! No other place on the planet panders the way we do! Just say NO!


16 posted on 10/30/2006 10:14:14 PM PST by oneamericanvoice (America is the country and English is our language! If you don't like it here - GO Home!)
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To: metmom
My grandparents came over here from *the old country* without knowing English and they learned it.

Same here with my Dad's parents from Germany. Did the government accommodate them with interpretators and voting guidelines printed in German? No. Same for those who emigrated from Poland, Italy, etc.

I would like to know the rationale behind the exceptions made for legal Mexican immigrants. (Those who are here illegally should be deported.)

That taxpayers have to fund interpreters or any other special assistance at the polls is, IMO, another example of the government stealing what rightfully belongs to those who earned it...and they do it with impunity.

If the legal Mexicans want to vote in America, let them learn our language or just don't vote! If their allegiance is more to Mexico than the United States, well, that's another topic.

27 posted on 10/30/2006 11:26:51 PM PST by IIntense
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