Voting Rights?

Question

There is a possiblity that minorites might not be able to vote anymore....what are your opinions?

Answer 1

If the people in question are American citizens, then they should be able to vote on whatever comes up.

Answer 2

Minorities will NOT be denied the right to vote. They will only be required to prove who the are - the same as everyone else that wants to vote. Why is this so difficult to accept?
As far as bilingual ballots go, you have to speak english to become a citizen. You must be a citizen to vote. So why bilingual ballots? To allow non-citizens to vote, maybe?

Answer 3

African-American ministers and activists say they will be lobbying U.S. Rep. Anne Northup, R-Louisville, to vote for renewing the Voting Rights Act, including a controversial section that would require bilingual ballots in some jurisdictions.

The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the bill Thursday, although it could be delayed. Northup opposes requiring bilingual ballots.

Louisville NAACP president Raoul Cunningham, who spoke to a group of black Baptist ministers and other church members Tuesday night to urge them to lobby for the bill, said the NAACP’s position is that, “all minorities are entitled to full benefits of the right to vote, and … we should not assist in abolishing those provisions” that make is easier to do so.

The Rev. Bernard Crayton, moderator of the Central District Baptist Association, said Wednesday that members planned to lobby for the bill.

“We are going to be making phone calls to necessary national representatives to voice our support in passing this bill without any weakening of it all,” he said. The annual meeting, held at Hill Street Baptist Church on Dixie Highway, drew about 300 ministers and members of the historically African-American association.

The Voting Rights Act, originally passed in 1965, is designed to protect minority voters. A 1975 addition to the law has drawn recent criticism particularly amid disputes over separate legislation regarding immigration.

The law requires election administrators to provide bilingual ballots in a jurisdiction if more than 10,000 voting-age citizens or 5 percent of all voting-age citizens — whichever figure is less — speak the same foreign language and have limited English skills.