It is our belief and it was a great advancement of American democracy to say that American citizens whose primary language is not English should also be able to understand ballots. even the most complicated or simple of ballot initiatives. petitions. ballots with candidates. What this section of the Voting Rights Act says is when there is a community that has a significant number of people whose language is other than English. that that community should have access to ballots in their language of preference. in their language of most fluency. In addition to the fact that there are millions of American citizens who are native born and who speak languages other than English. our laws also establish and call for elderly resident aliens. residents of the United States. immigrants. who have resided legally in the United States for more than 15 years. our law says that they can take the exam to become a citizen of the United States in their native language. So there are many elderly American citizens. naturalized American citizens. who are allowed. according to our laws. the laws of our Congress. to take their naturalization exam to become a proud American citizen in languages other than English. They should also. Mr.
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