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Opening Arguments

Gringo morons

I'm afraid someone is going to have to explain this one to those of us in the slow lane:

What was to have been a simple renewal of the historic Voting Rights Act has become snarled in the heated debate involving immigration issues.

Conservative House members tried Wednesday to end a requirement in the 1965 law that bilingual ballots and interpreters be provided in states and counties where large numbers of citizens speak limited English.

The House Judiciary Committee rejected the effort.

1. One must be a citizen to vote.

2. One is either a natural-born citizen, presumably with English as the primary language spoken, or a naturalized citizen, which would have required an English-proficiency exam.

3. Requiring bilingual ballots is therefore just more posturing from the same sort of politcians who think getting all huffy about the National Anthem being sung in Spanish is going to make people on the other side of the debate feel warm and fuzzy.

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