The American Government is “picking & choosing” Which laws to enforce. Here is proof.
Fri Oct 13, 10:21 PM ET
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To: National Desk
Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, 202-514-2007; 202-514-1888 (TDD); Web: http://WWW.USDOJ.GOV
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ — The Justice Department announced today that it filed a lawsuit against the City of Philadelphia, alleging violations of the rights of Hispanic and Spanish-speaking voters under two key provisions of the Voting Rights Act.
“The right to vote is a fundamental guarantee for all American citizens,” said Wan J. Kim, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. “In light of the serious problems faced by minority language citizen voters in Philadelphia, we hope that city officials and the Justice Department can reach an agreement quickly to begin essential remedial measures in time for the 2006 federal elections.”
The Voting Rights Act requires that certain jurisdictions with a substantial minority-language voter population provide all voting materials and assistance in the minority language as well as in English. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, charges that the city failed to provide Spanish-language assistance at the polls to the majority of its Spanish- speaking voters in recent elections.
The Voting Rights Act also assures voters who need assistance in voting, such as those unable to see or read the ballot, the right to receive that assistance from a person of their choice, other than the voter’s employer or union representative. The complaint charges that the city prevented Spanish-speaking voters from receiving assistance from the persons of their choice, even in cases where bilingual assistance was otherwise unavailable.
The Civil Rights Division works to ensure compliance with all of the provisions of the Voting Rights Act with respect to all citizens of all racial groups in all areas of the United States. Since 2002, the Civil Rights Division has filed over three-fourths of all cases to protect the right of voters needing assistance in the history of the Act, and over 60 percent of all minority language cases than in the entire previous history of the Voting Rights Act. As a result of this work and other lawsuits brought, since 2002, the Department has brought a majority of all cases it ever has filed under the substantive provisions of the Voting Rights Act to protect Hispanic and Asian voters, and the first cases ever filed to protect the voting rights of Filipino and Vietnamese voters. During this time period, the Division has filed successful Voting Rights Act lawsuits across the country, with cases in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington.
To file complaints about discriminatory voting practices, including acts of harassment or intimidation, voters may call the Voting Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division at 1-800- 253-3931. More information about the Voting Rights Act and other federal voting laws is available on the Department of Justice Web site at http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/index.ht…http://www.usnewswire.com/
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Is This Outrageous?
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This is why the voting rights act almost wasn’t renewed this year, don’t you think?
I’m actually ok with translation materials for legal citizens, so long as they truly are legal citizens, but I agree this is out of line and bad judgment as well. It also demonstrates quite clearly that in absence of a citizen suit provision allowing citizens to sue the government to enforce immigration laws, the administration has far too much leeway to decide which laws to throw enforcement funds behind. I certainly will keep that in mind in the next Presidential elections.
i live in pa.here is what people think that you don’t hear. if you cant understand our language you aren’t a legal citizen. there are tests provided to achieve this.if you don’t understand our language how could you ever understand our laws and government. we have just started a plan to have all of the illegals removed from the state..blair county and 12 others to date with 10 more with similar laws coming have made it a felony to harbor ,employ,or to give shelter to illegal immigrants. this is a good law.you have to take your states back period! county by ,county. then there wont be a problem with disenfranchised voters.
Ridiculous. I am terrified of what this country will be in 5 years, 10 years, 20 years. What will our children have to live with? Will they be able to live in the US? Will they be alive at all? The laws are ruining this country, and it seems that since the illegals have come over in such huge numbers, the laws keep being made to cater to them, Americans be damned.
Yes but you realize it is another attempt by our current political leaders to control who votes so they can retain the corrupted power they now wield.
Yes, The national language should be English. When you go to Rome do as the Romans do…
People that live here for more than 5 years legal or not and do not learn our language shouldn’t be voting anyway. IF they don’t know our language how are they to come to their own opinion?
Also the voting rights act should be amended to state that all voters must have a picture ID
Wow talk about the ability to rig an election if they wanted to.I do agree that people should be informed of all the issues in an election but that is up to me as an individual to avail myself of all the information.I want a translator to decipher the legal BS they put into the laws ,so its difficult for anyone that isn’t a lawyer to understand.Another example of bending over backwards for some special people in the eyes of our PC /BS government