Note to the local politicos

[lsanderson]

If you're going to send Spanish translators to a polling place, make sure they can speak Spanish. (Or don't send them to a polling place with a bi-lingual Chair Judge.) Better yet, if you want to help out at the polling places, volunteer as an Election Judge. Poll Challengers are a different order of business -- they get to challenge voters from personal knowledge to prevent that "voter fraud" that Repugs are so worried about, not help out around the polls.

Comments

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

Minnesota?

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

Your question appears to be less than crystal clear from where I sit.

If you are under the impression that there is no need for Spanish translators in The Great White North, let me disabuse you of this mistaken notion now.

I can't speak for other polling locations, but the one I work at had materials in four languages other than English, one of them being Spanish (we also had materials in Hmong, Somali, and Vietnamese, IIRC).

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

that's ok, it wasn't for you.

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

although that is pretty fantastic, are you around Frogtown then?

I wonder about the nonliterate Somalis. I suppose their kids sat down and taught them the letters. Vote for the one that starts with the O.