Thread: Bilingual Ballots Vote today?!? Action needed

I read this last night on the site, but then couldn't locate it again to bump it up. So sorry if this is a repeat post.


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Title: Bilingual Ballots Vote possible on July 13 & your Rep. needs to hear from you
Source: ENGLISH FIRST
URL Source: http://www.EnglishFirst.org
Published: Jul 13, 2006
Author: JIM BOULET-Exec. Dir
Post Date: 2006-07-13 02:02:38 by blackhorse
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July 12, 2006 - Bilingual Ballots Vote Possible July 13th Your Representative needs to hear from you now!



The House of Representatives may vote to renew the Voting Rights Act, including its bilingual ballot provisions, as early as Thursday, July 13th.

You may recall that the last time the House leadership attempted to move H.R. 9, they denied any amendments whatsoever. A rebellion among rank-and-file House Republicans forced the leadership to pull the bill from consideration.

As of this moment, there is no agreement as to whether any amendments will be allowed to H.R. 9, should the House leadership seek to try again this Thursday.

What scares me is that the more people who bother to read H.R. 9, a mere twelve pages in length, the less that they agree what this legislation would and would not do if passed in its current form and signed into law.

At a meeting this morning, serious attorneys spent two hours arguing over just one provision of this legislation and could come to no resolution.

My own investigation, which became an article in National Review Online today ("Backward March") http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Nz ... k0OGQ3YTM= suggests that H.R. 9 will create an unlimited right to multilingual ballots throughout the United States:

Quoting from my article:

Section 5 of H.R. 9 specifically cites the "guarantees set forth in section 4(f)(2)" of the Voting Rights Act for a reason. Section 4(f)(2) states:

No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote because he is a member of a language minority group.

Those states and localities which have managed to avoid the cost of mandatory multilingual voting should be aware that the other side considers requiring people to vote in English to impose a disparate impact upon Limited English Proficient (LEP) voters.

Frankly, if Congress cannot agree about what this bill does, extremist judges will be glad to help. The plain language of H.R. 9 suggests that ANY effort to prevent vote fraud, if it can be argued to impact any minority group, can be blocked by a friendly judge.

As I say in my article:


In short, the Voting Rights Act could now also be known as "The Endless Election Litigation Act," "The Vote Fraud Enabling Act," and "The Mandatory Multilingual Elections Everywhere Act."

What You Can Do:


Please e-mail your Congressman right away and ask him or her to insist upon a vote on the"King-Miller (MI)-Brown Waite-Istook amendment". This amendment would remove the bilingual ballot provisions of H.R. 9. English First will be scoring a vote on this amendment. Alas. the anti-bilingual ballot amendment will only improve a bad bill. Your Congressman should vote against H.R. 9 on final passage. __________ Prepared by English First, 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151 (703) 321-8818 http://www.englishfirst.org

News Letter from Team America

Hi, this is Marcus Epstein, the research director at Team America.

Bay usually sends the e-mail, but I just got word of this, and we need
to
act fast.

Tomorrow, the House will be voting on the King Amendment to the Voting
Rights Act, which will strike out provisions requiring states to
provide
foreign language ballots. (H.R. 9).

According to our naturalization laws, immigrants need to learn English
in
order to gain citizenship, so there should be no reason for these
foreign
language ballots. Of course, like our immigration laws, this is not
enforced.

Of course the usual suspects in the GOP-- Karl Rove, Ken Mehlman, and
George W. Bush-- are pushing for foreign language ballots.

Tell your representatives to Vote Yes on the King Amendment to Voting
Rights Act (HR 9) ( house phone #s
http://www.teamamericapac.org/plainpage ... umbers.htm )

Specifically target these members

https://www.campaigncontribution.com/do ... =2586&db=6

Biggert
Blunt
Boehlert
Bono
Calvert
Capito,
Chabot
Cole (OK)
Davis, Tom,
Dent
Ehlers
English (PA)
Ferguson
Fitzpatrick (PA)
Flake
Forbes
Frelinghuysen
Gilchrest
Green (WI)
Hastings (WA)
Hyde
Johnson, Sam
Kirk
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kuhl (NY)
LaHood
LaTourette
Lewis (CA)
LoBiondo
Lungren
McCaul (TX)
Nunes
Osborne
Oxley
Pearce
Pence
Petri
Ramstad
Regula
Reichert
Renzi
Ros-Lehtinen
Ryan (WI)
Sanders
Saxton
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shays
Simmons
Simpson
Smith (NJ)
Sweeney
Thomas
Walsh
Weller
Wilson (NM)
Wolf
Young (AK)

Thanks

Marcus Epstein

to contribute to Team America, go to
https://www.campaigncontribution.com/do ... =2586&db=6

Sent my email

Called my US Rep. C'mon, just do it - email, call, fax - or, best of all, pay a personal visit to your local Rep's office.

DONE

just so im clear (i apologize, didn't get much sleep last night and im groggy), if I live in California,I can only contact California representatives, right?

man am i tired.

The site may only let you contact reps based on your zip code, but you can email any reps you like in any state.

Issue presently being debated on floor of US House (from C-Span)

Originally Posted by PhredE

Issue presently being debated on floor of US House (from C-Span)

can you update us?

Originally Posted by lsmith1338

Sent my email

did you find links to email them from that site? I can only find numbers (can't call from work at this time)

If I can send e-mails, i'll do it. just show me where to get them