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The Northerner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 02:40 PM Original message |
Bilingual voting ballots ordered in 25 states |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
1. I may be alone here in my opinion that this is a bad thing. |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 03:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. So ensuring that US citizens who may not be fluent in English can exercise the franchise... |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 03:51 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Fluency in English should be a bare minimum requirement for naturalized citizenship. |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 04:12 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Some demonstrated competency (although not necessarily "fluency") IS a requirement |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 04:21 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. "Fluency" has a specific meaning. nt |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 04:31 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Sure, the ability to converse in English, read a newspaper, and write a sentence would be "fluency" |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 04:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. "Naturalized" also has a specific meaning. |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 04:40 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. But the fact that there are native-born US citizens... |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 04:48 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. In Hindi? I think not. nt |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 04:57 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. The language is beside the point |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 05:01 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Nonsense. You were just on about the native born "naturalized" population, |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 05:03 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. No, I was talking about the native-born population in places like Hawaii |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 07:44 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. Conflating Spanish with Pidgin is not valid |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 08:12 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. I'm not conflating anything; I'm providing an example of native US citizens... |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 08:40 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. The study does not even acknowledge pidgin |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 03:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. So the Justice Department should just ignore the Voting Rights Act |
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Bill McBlueState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 04:56 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. eh, probably not |
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YellowRubberDuckie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
16. Oklahoma has outlawed them. |
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belcffub (69 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
17. ok... so how many people who speak... |
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yankeeswin (27 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-12-11 08:08 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. The guidelines were printed above |
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