Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

Markqz t1_it8447c wrote

I see a lot of negativity, and I think people aren't understanding. The counties that are not offering ballots in other languages are the same ones where it has been determined that less than 5% of the voters speak some particular language. It is not that some counties arbitrarily choose not to create material in some language.

In the U.S., voting is usually administered by the county government. Ballots include federal, state, county, and city choices -- not just Federal choices. The counties have to foot the bill. Asking that every single county, no matter their population, print ballots in, say, the top 30 languages of the world would be unnecessarily expensive and not accomplish anything.

This is a map of Democracy in action -- not a map of oppression, as some redditors seem to believe.

1