Do You Support Bilingual Ballots? Read Letter, Take Poll
Do you support the official ballot being bilingual?
Editor's note: Absentee ballots will be bilingual for the first time in Lorain County. Touch screens will have a Spanish and English option. Read this letter and take the poll.
To the Editor:
My question is, why do we have on the official election ballot for the March 6 election is in two languages? Isn't the language of this country English? My grandparents along with probably 90 percent of everyone over 50's grandparents came here from Europe and once they became a citizen voted in English.
They still spoke their language but the first thing they did was learn the language of this country.
Why the double standard?
Dan LaVigne
Avon Lake
Nick B. Fernando
2:51 pm on Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Actually, Dan, the language of the country is NOT English. In fact, we have no official language at all. Why do you care if people speak their native languages?
Dan LaVigne
10:21 am on Thursday, February 9, 2012
Have no problem with people speaking their native language, but have a problem of having everything in two languages. This was never done before and people coming her from Europe and Asia always learned english because everyday life you had to speak the language. The government is spending millions of dollars for signs, ballots, phone messages, teaching in school.
Phil McCracken
10:56 am on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Well, Dan, in other parts of the world like Europe and Africa and Asia, people have been doing this for thousands of years. Culture, which includes language, really has no borders. To draw a line on a map and say "Nobody on our side of the line can speak any other language but English" is short-sighted and narrow-minded. Can you cite a couple of credible sources (e.g., non-Limbaugh or Beck sources) for the "millions and millions" being spent?