When those polled were asked specifically what they thought of the part of the VRA that required States and counties where over 5 percent of the citizens are not fluent in English to provide assistance in their native language. 65 percent either strongly favored or favored those provisions. Even though section 203 affects only 12 percent of the country. it was enacted for sound reasons and is still needed to remove barriers to voting by legal taxpaying citizens who do not speak English well enough to participate in the election process. According to the 2000 Census. most of the people who are potential beneficiaries of section 203 assistance are nativeborn legal citizens. meaning they are not immigrants who were naturalized. they are people who are citizens because they were born in the United States of America. The Judiciary Committees records shows that adults who want to learn English experience long wait times to enroll in English as a second language literacy centers. And. once enrolled. learning English takes adult citizens several years to even obtain a fundamental understanding of the English language.
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