They can be proud of their ancestry and native customs but they expect and want to adopt the customs and language of America. Monterey County was covered by the 1970 act because less than 50 percent of the voting age population voted in the 1968 election. The census computation of the "voting age population"taken during the peak harvest and tourist seasonincluded thousands of persons stationed at eight military installationsmost of whom voted elsewherethousands of inmates in two State prisons--none of whom voted anywherethousands of migrant farm workers and hundreds of persons employed seasonally in the tourist industry. who leave and reside elsewhere in November. This was a typical inequity in the law. but required a special census of our county to make certain whether or not we were covered. The census was an additional cost to the federal taxpayers and an embarrassment to our county because no allegation of voter discrimination had ever been made against our county.