Comments on: I voted, have you? http://www.adamduvander.com/me/i-voted-have-you Adam DuVander’s thoughts on keeping things simple. Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:05:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Adam http://www.adamduvander.com/me/i-voted-have-you/comment-page-1#comment-654 Adam Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:08:15 +0000 http://www.adamduvander.com/me/i-voted-have-you#comment-654 Wacky. Would you say your neighborhood has a large Chinese-American population? It could be some strange law that says instructions must be printed in English and the highest non-English language spoken in the zip code. The Census collects that info, so it'd be somewhat easy to get the data. The translating would be that hard part! If that's not the case, then you may be onto something. My educated guess would follow along with yours: a Spanish translation should always be there in Seattle. Wacky. Would you say your neighborhood has a large Chinese-American population? It could be some strange law that says instructions must be printed in English and the highest non-English language spoken in the zip code. The Census collects that info, so it’d be somewhat easy to get the data. The translating would be that hard part!

If that’s not the case, then you may be onto something. My educated guess would follow along with yours: a Spanish translation should always be there in Seattle.

]]> By: Tom Watson http://www.adamduvander.com/me/i-voted-have-you/comment-page-1#comment-653 Tom Watson Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:23:27 +0000 http://www.adamduvander.com/me/i-voted-have-you#comment-653 Just filled out my ballot last night and yeah it takes a while to read through all the different measures. I tend to skip the judges just because I really have no idea and most are running unopposed anyway. I vote by mail here as well but by choice. It's a little tricky this election though. The ballot is bigger so it takes 63 cents to mail it in. I noticed something strange when I was going through the material, there's a card warning you about the necessary postage written in both English and Chinese but not Spanish. It got me to wonder if it's an oversight or if someone is hoping to disenfrachise some minority voters. Just filled out my ballot last night and yeah it takes a while to read through all the different measures. I tend to skip the judges just because I really have no idea and most are running unopposed anyway. I vote by mail here as well but by choice. It’s a little tricky this election though. The ballot is bigger so it takes 63 cents to mail it in.

I noticed something strange when I was going through the material, there’s a card warning you about the necessary postage written in both English and Chinese but not Spanish. It got me to wonder if it’s an oversight or if someone is hoping to disenfrachise some minority voters.

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