http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/11/03/justice-department-dispatches-poll-monitors-for-election-day/The Justice Department has dispatched federal poll monitors to 18 states in an effort to prevent voter discrimination ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday.
The monitors will look for race-based discrimination and inadequate resources for bilingual voters and individuals with disabilities, the agency said in a statement on Monday.
Why do we need resources for bilingual voters? By definition, someone who is lingual speaks two languages. If someone doesn't speak/read English well enough to understand the instructions and to vote in English -- then they shouldn't be voting.
And then there's the unspoken reality that they don't really mean "bilingual," they mean Hispanic. We have a lot of Hispanics around here, and may simple refuse to learn English. We also have a significant Polish community, a Russian community, a Greek community, a Chinese community ... and probably several more. So is AG Holder sending his monitors to ensure that there is assistance for voters available in Polish, Russian, Greek, and Chinese? Some how I don't think so.
This country screwed up royally by not formally adopting English as THE national language when we had a chance to do so. There are so many Hispanics here now that I don't we could ever pass an "Official English" amendment today.