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Updates on official English and related issues

Friday, October 11, 2002
 
More Florida Election Lunacy

Florida's Broward County is required by federal law to allow people to vote in Spanish. Haitian-Creole speakers are demanding the same treatment in Broward, even though federal law does not apply. Of course, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission thinks this demand is just dandy. Bobby Doctor, director of the Atlanta office of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, told the Miami Herald: "'It's being responsive to the spirit of the law. "I think Broward could really take a page from that book -- and should take a page from that book.''

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