As I wrote as responce to Birgitte in another time in this thread,
On 9/21/06, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
As for translation, which is of course very important, I think the best solution is probably more or less what's been done for this election -- make sure that every candidate provides a short statement of approximately equal length; make sure that this statement is assiduously translated into as many languages as possible;
So I think.
but then allow (and encourage) candidates to post as much additional material as they wish, in whatever language(s) they are comfortable in, with no guarantee it will get translated.
and that I object (except "no guarantee" part). As I stated before, it means "if you can read language A, you are provided more materials than language non-A speakers". On local projects, I found some signs some people thought such additional materials would be just a sign of those candidates are anglo-centric.
Since the Election is not yet closed, I stop my wording here at this moment. But frustration of non-English communities will follow a conclusion which may be a nightmare for English people, I predict, and perhaps for other language speaking people too.
Considering such reactions and frustrations on non-English speaking communities, regarding equal-oppotunity of electrates, I strongly oppose this idea.