Judge puts English only on Voter forms - Truckers' Trucking Forum

Harley · **^ Top** #1 04.05.2008

A Polk county judge has ordered Iowa Secretary of State Michael Mauro to stop using languages other than English in the states official voter registration forms.
District Judge Douglas Staskal ruled in favor of U.S. Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican who sued state officials last year, contending they were violating the states English-language law. He brought the suit against Gov. Chet Culver, who previously served as secretary of state, and Mauro, contending they have placed illegal voting forms on the Secretary of State's web site.
The dispute began shortly before Election Day in 2006, when King demanded that Culver remove voting information in languages other than English from the web site.
The state offered information in Spanish, Laotian, Bosnian and Vietnamese.

Working Class Patriot · **^ Top** #2 04.05.2008

Put it this way, millions of $$$ would be saved if all levels of government printed ballots and drivers license tests in English Only. IMHO, the CDL tests should only be in English period. Drivers who drive in the US should be proficient in ENGLISH. If I drove into Quebec I would learn French and If I drove in Mexico, I would learn to speak Spanish. Why is that we are expected to accommodate other's language barriers? My great-grandfather came to this country speaking only German and you can bet that he learned English ASAP, because no one would speak German to him.

What about textbooks?????
LAUSD has text books printed in Spanish, Farsi, all of the Chinese dialects, Tagalog, and Vietnamese all at the tax-payers expense; but not in French, German, Swedish, Russian, Italian, Flemish, Dutch, Hebrew, Cherokee, Lenape, and Welsh. Hmmm.....is that not a pile of *&^%%$^??? Is that not racist???

Cybergal · **^ Top** #3 04.06.2008

Why should I have to press 1 for ENGLISH anyway?

danc694u · **^ Top** #4 04.06.2008

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Originally Posted by Cybergal

Why should I have to press 1 for ENGLISH anyway?

Cuz if you press 2, you can't understand it.

If you press 0, you can't understand them either LOL

I hate tech support in other countries.....They may be smart. But what good is it, if I can't understand a %$## thing they are saying.

Working Class Patriot · **^ Top** #5 04.06.2008

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Originally Posted by danc694u

Cuz if you press 2, you can't understand it.

If you press 0, you can't understand them either LOL

I hate tech support in other countries.....They may be smart. But what good is it, if I can't understand a %$## thing they are saying.

Just like when I had a Dell (Dude...

) and would have to call tech support. You could definitely tell that the "techs" were not techs and that they reading from a script.

Cybergal · **^ Top** #6 04.06.2008

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Originally Posted by danc694u

Cuz if you press 2, you can't understand it.

If you press 0, you can't understand them either LOL

I hate tech support in other countries.....They may be smart. But what good is it, if I can't understand a %$## thing they are saying.

THERE have been many times when calling DISH NETWORK, that I had to ask for someone that I could understand.
Alot of them did not like it, but frankly I didn't and don't care.....

Harley · **^ Top** #7 04.06.2008

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Originally Posted by Ron-MARS Trucking

Put it this way, millions of $$$ would be saved if all levels of government printed ballots and drivers license tests in English Only. IMHO, the CDL tests should only be in English period. Drivers who drive in the US should be proficient in ENGLISH. If I drove into Quebec I would learn French and If I drove in Mexico, I would learn to speak Spanish. Why is that we are expected to accommodate other's language barriers? My great-grandfather came to this country speaking only German and you can bet that he learned English ASAP, because no one would speak German to him.

What about textbooks?????
LAUSD has text books printed in Spanish, Farsi, all of the Chinese dialects, Tagalog, and Vietnamese all at the tax-payers expense; but not in French, German, Swedish, Russian, Italian, Flemish, Dutch, Hebrew, Cherokee, Lenape, and Welsh. Hmmm.....is that not a pile of *&^%%$^??? Is that not racist???

Good point. Yes it is racist but it only seems to be racist if were talking about another nationality but never seems to be racist when its against the American citizens. Were suppose to put up with the BS and deal with it when foreigners (illegals) dont have to. They come over here and were expected to assimilate to them when its suppose to be the other way around.

Harley · **^ Top** #8 04.06.2008

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Originally Posted by Cybergal

THERE have been many times when calling DISH NETWORK, that I had to ask for someone that I could understand.
Alot of them did not like it, but frankly I didn't and don't care.....

DirecTV used to be the same way but now you either get an American or a foriegner that speaks very good English. Alot better than it used to be.

Working Class Patriot · **^ Top** #9 04.06.2008

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Originally Posted by Cybergal

THERE have been many times when calling DISH NETWORK, that I had to ask for someone that I could understand.
Alot of them did not like it, but frankly I didn't and don't care.....

My wife took Spanish in high school and on occasion, it has been handy. Like the time when someone was bad mouthing us in Wally World and my wife replied back in Spanish....heh, talk about Priceless

Cybergal · **^ Top** #10 04.06.2008

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Originally Posted by Ron-MARS Trucking

My wife took Spanish in high school and occasion it has been handy. Like the time when someone was bad mouthing us in Wally World and my wife replied back in Spanish....heh, talk about Priceless

I speak SPANISH very well from being in the PEACE CORPS and residing in Bogota, Columbia for a few years.

But I still have trouble with heavy accents. If they are Spanish operators, I can tell them to speak there language and we can talk. But if they are from some where else, Iam in big trouble right off the bat.

I have trouble understanding doctors with heavy accents as well.

NOTE EDIT ( I still feel they should speak English clearly, even though a second language here is established between me and the operator) This is there responsibility as far as Iam concerned.

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