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FightOnForUsc t1_it539gn wrote

Reply to comment by henryswww in [OC] US counties required to provide non-English ballots under the Voting Rights Act, by number of languages by USAFacts_Official

I know you’re a troll. But someone could have moved here from any country, naturalized and become a citizen, and still read another language better than English. We want anyone who is going to vote to understand what they are voting for as best as possible. Doesn’t mean that they don’t speak English just because they want a ballot in a different language

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repeat4EMPHASIS t1_it60coq wrote

Even without immigrants, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans can still vote too.

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FightOnForUsc t1_it62jkd wrote

Well Puerto Rico isn’t on this map, but you make a point. I’m curious, do you know how many Native American languages do have ballots in their languages? I used my example because I think it’s easier to see someone not having great English in 7 years after a whole life somewhere else, whereas I think most all native Americans still speak English. I don’t know enough about the school system in Puerto Rico to know how widespread English is there or how big of a focus it is in school, but I imagine almost everyone there knows English as well, but of course they also know Spanish.

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repeat4EMPHASIS t1_it65i7g wrote

> I’m curious, do you know how many Native American languages do have ballots in their languages?

Unfortunately I don't have access to that data anymore, so I can't remember if it was just election materials that were translated in a few states in addition to the NMVRF, or the ballots themselves.

But anyway I think your example was great because a naturalized citizen could speak English every day but not read much in plenty of blue collar jobs. Or military service members who married foreign citizens and brought them back to the US (they wouldn't dare not support the troops and their wives, would they?)

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PM_ME_UR_SEAHORSE t1_it6jd75 wrote

Ballots are required by the VRA to be printed in Aleut, Apache, Choctaw, Coushatta, Ho-Chunk, Hopi, Inupiaq, Kickapoo, Navajo, Nez Perce, Paiute, Pueblo (unclear which?), Seminole, Shoshone, Ute, and Yup'ik in certain counties/boroughs, according to this report (page 35)

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