Delirium wrote:
The official website of Texas
<http://www.state.tx.us/> is in both
Spanish and English, and this is true of many states with large
Spanish-speaking populations. Every ballot I've ever used to vote in
an election (I'm from Texas) was printed in both English and Spanish;
in the last election, my absentee ballot came with a Vietnamese
version as well. All government buildings have their signs in both
English and Spanish. Basically, there is no official piece of
communication you can get from the Texas state government that does
not have every word of English translated to Spanish, and in the
Houston area Vietnamese is often included as well.
(Compare the uproar that would ensue if a European country allowed
people to vote using Turkish-language ballots.)
Actually, this happens all the time. Part of Turkey *is* in Europe,
after all (although I'm not sure who is more likely to forget that fact,
the Americans or the Europeans). While I understand that there may have
been a little uproar surrounding some of their elections in the past, I
doubt it had to do with the language of the ballots.
--Michael Snow