Tuesday, November 04, 2003
Vietnamese Voting Complaints in Texas
Harris County, Texas, will provide "Vietnamese translators, sample ballots in Vietnamese and informational voting materials at targeted polling places" for today's election. Not good enough, claim the professional activists, who wonder why Vietnamese isn't also included on the new electronic voting machines:
The $25 million eSlate machines, which replaced the county's aging punch-card system, were first used last November and provided Spanish and English ballots. The county has been unable to get federal certification to add Vietnamese.
Interestingly, the same people are already complaining about "interpreters were not proficient in the [Vietnamese] language." Shouldn't we all be more concerned about voters who are not proficient in English?
|posted by Jim on 4:12 AM|
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