Kase Wickman
Raw Story
August 19, 2011
Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) introduced legislation to overturn part of the 1973 Voting Rights Act, which requires that areas with large minority populations make bilingual voting materials available.
“Whether or not dual-language ballots are used ought to be up to local election officials and shouldn’t be mandated by the federal government,” Coffman said in a news release.
Joe Megyesy, Coffman’s communications director, told Raw Story that the issue wasn’t that Coffman didn’t support voter access to ballots, but that he wanted districts to be allowed to decide for themselves whether to provide them.
“This is going to cost a lot of these counties on shoestring budgets, it’s going to cost them a lot of money, and he wanted to give them the opportunity to decide for themselves,” Megyesy said.
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hell with printing em in Spanish, let em go to Mexico to fuggen vote.
“Whether or not dual-language ballots are used ought to be up to local election officials and shouldn’t be mandated by the federal government,” Coffman said in a news release.
I agree.