Thursday, June 27, 2002
We Prefer, So You Pay
Orange County Florida yesterday settled a bilingual ballot complaint brought against it by the U.S. Department of Justice.
James Auffant, a lawyer and a member of a Hispanic voting-rights group that handled voter complaints after the 2000 election, complained to the Orlando Sentinel: "What do you do about a 90-year-old lady who's lived here her whole life and paid her taxes and she prefers to speak Spanish?" Auffant said. "The law says they need to be provided for. It's not a favor" (emphasis added).
Bilingual ballot supporters used to claim people needed them. Now they are saying people want them. In either case, the taxpayers get stuck with the bill. The story notes that "at Cowles' office, there were recruitment fliers in Spanish. 'Hispanics helping Hispanics vote,' read the fliers, which also offered $100 to $200 for bilingual poll workers on Election Day." English-speaking poll workers, by contrast, earn just $80 in Osceola County.
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