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.
Judge puts English only on Voter forms
Discussion in 'Other News' started by Harley, Apr 5, 2008.
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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 *&^%%$^??? Is that not racist??? -
Why should I have to press 1 for ENGLISH anyway?
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If you press 0, you can't understand them either LOL
I hate tech support in other countries.....They may be smart. But what good is it, if I can't understand a %$## thing they are saying. -
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Alot of them did not like it, but frankly I didn't and don't care..... -
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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 -
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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