Wednesday, April 10, 2002
Senate Back on Election Reform
The U.S. Senate has resumed debate on its election reform bill. The legislation is expected to pass tomorrow. Then things will get interesting.
The Senate bill would spend $3.4 billion over five years to improve voting procedures. Every one of those dollars will carry a mandate that people who speak any language on earth have the right to ballots, brochures and election clerks fluent in that language, thanks to Clinton Executive Order 13166.
Until this bill is passed, the current 5% test for bilingual voting materials (5% of the population in question must speak a particular non-English language) will remain in place. That may change drastically unless the bill addresses the E.O. 13166 problem.
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