Bilingual Ballots

This is an outrage. If they are here long enough to have become citizens, they should know how to speak English. Immigrants of the past, our grandparents and great grandparents, were not catered to, they were not given voting ballots or anything else in the language of the countries they came from. They had to make their own way, assimilate and learn English. I've had enough of this entitlement bullshit. If everyone who came here had kept their own language, we would be speaking hundreds of different languages in this country and America would have ceased to exist as we know it, long ago.

Bilingual voting ballots ordered in 25 states
By Hope Yen October 12, 2011 12:40 pm Text Size: A A A WASHINGTON (AP) - In the run-up to the 2012 elections, the federal government is requiring that 248 counties and other political jurisdictions in 25 states provide bilingual ballots to Hispanics and other minorities who speak little or no English.

That's down from the previous list compiled a decade ago after the 2000 census, which covered 296 counties in 30 states.

The federal Voting Rights Act mandates bilingual material if a Latino, Asian-American, American Indian or Alaskan minority group is unable to speak or understand English well enough to vote in elections.

Combined with other provisions of the voting act, more than 1 in 18 jurisdictions must now provide bilingual material, effective this week.

The Census Bureau compiles the list based on population growth and survey data on educational attainment and English proficiency.