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Tom Tancredo: “If, in fact, one cannot understand English, and at the point in time that one comes to vote, one has to be given a…”

On the recordMay 24, 2001
If, in fact, one cannot understand English, and at the point in time that one comes to vote, one has to be given a ballot in a different language, does that not mean that one is also most likely unable to understand the debate that occurred prior to the decision one makes to vote? All of the discussion of the issues were inevitably in English. All of the candidates speaking, let us say 90 percent of the time anyway, were speaking and telling us their particular positions, their attitudes, their ideas in English. But if one cannot understand that, and one goes to the polls to vote, on what basis does one make these decisions if one cannot understand English and have to be given a different ballot?
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Tom Tancredo
Colorado

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Discussing the implications of non-English ballots on voter understanding and participation.

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