http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/sec_203/203_notice.pdf

Covered Jurisdictions

Covered jurisdictions are determined by the Census Bureau after each census based upon a formula set out in the Voting Rights Act. The most recent determinations were made on July 26, 2002.

Covered language minorities are limited to American Indians, Asian Americans, Alaskan Natives, and Spanish-heritage citizens - the groups that Congress found to have faced barriers in the political process.

Section 203 Coverage Formula

A jurisdiction is covered under Section 203 where the number of United States citizens of voting age is a single language group within the jurisdiction:

* Is more than 10,000, or
* Is more than five percent of all voting age citizens, or
* On an Indian reservation, exceeds five percent of all reservation residents; and
* The illiteracy rate of the group is higher than the national illiteracy rate

Not so, Dave…citizenship requirements require the ability to read and speak English. If they are legally entitled to vote, they should have sufficient knowledge to do so. For any complicated voter situations, there are Election Officials available to them, just as they are for any other citizen. What’s so hard? I was bi-lingual by the age of three.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004450665_gop01m.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1092203.html

Hispanics are NOT the only ILLEGAL aliens being deported:

http://www.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=94026
http://www.newschannel5.tv/2008/6/3/992348/More-Chinese-Illegal-Immigrants-Found
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/immigrants_87193___article.html/undocumented_political.html

http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/crime/article.aspx?storyid=81340

I think jurisdictions might need to prepare documents of a health and safety nature in languages other than English.

And, of course, voting ballots and voting information is subject to Federal laws and might have to be made available in other languages if the jurisdiction is a “covered jurisdiction”, i.e. subject to the law by surpassing certain thresholds.

How much longer will they be able to stand there waiting for jobs? I have noticed that the laundromat on Portsmouth road is near empty now. Before you wouldn’t be able to stir the place with a stick and the parking lot was always full. I know one business that decided not to rent a space next door because of the lack of parking.

Thank you for your service and congratulations to your spouse for adopting this country and following its laws while doing so. it really isn’t that hard, is it?

I asked Gil Trenum to sponsor a resolution requiring the schools to account for legal residency. He flat turned me down, citing Plyer v. Doe, which has nothing to do with accounting for the legal status of enrollees. When I pointed that fact out to him, he never replied.

I think the public has a right to know how much of its money is being spent on a group of people who really shouldn’t ought to be here, regardless of what moniker you apply to them (undocumented, illegal, without papers, etc.). I want to know how much of the billion bucks of my local tax money that the schools are eating up is being spent to educate children whose parents drag them into this country by stuffing them into car trunks, by dragging them across a desert, or by wading across a river. I want to know how much of my tax money is being spent on people whose education is the responsibility of other governments. Governments whose existences depend upon foisting their excess population on “el Norte.”

I think the interest that taxpayers have in knowing that information outweighs the possible chilling effect such an accounting may have on illegal aliens enrolling their kids in school.

The court has stated we HAVE to educate illegals. That doesn’t mean we can’t keep track of them.

My Safeway pharmacy phone system just recently switched to (in Spanish) “Press six for Spanish.” I could have cheered!

They gotta change the actors on the soaps. Same actors/actresses on every damn one. Maybe the exodus will increase the pool of “talent.” They are very adept at “acting.”

I think the next logical step is to focus on just how much ILLEGAL aliens are costing us, the legal, tax-paying residents of this County. One of the highest costs that would be easiest to quantify is the amount the schools are spending on educating illegal aliens. That could be accomplished by asking for proof of legal residence at the time of enrollment, for accountability purposes, not for denying enrollment to anyone. Unfortunately, the school board members have not been receptive to my request that they do this for the 2008-’09 school year. Without the support of the school board, the Supervisors do not want to force the schools to do it, since their only leverage is to withhold funds.

The Frederick County, MD BoCS passed a resolution in favor of this a couple of months ago for the purpose of reducing government and school expenses, and to save the taxpayers money. I’m all about cutting unnecessary spending out of the school and government budgets.

It’s time to shrink government and their spending and let us the tax payers keep more of our money.