A current diary reports on Weld County, Colorado, with a 27% Spanish-speaking population, where the County Clerk did not provide ballots in Spanish as required by law when the non-English speaking population is greater than 5%. The Clerk when by the 2000 census figures, when the Spanish-speaking population was less than 5%.
Many commenters are poo-pooing the idea that the lack of Spanish-language ballots would keep these citizens from voting, because -- after all -- Obama and McCain are spelled the same in both languages.
Please people, remember: there's more at stake in Colorado than the presidential election.
This is the link to the Colorado Blue Book, listing all the proposed amendments and initiatives on the ballot.
Included in those amendments is a "Right to Work" amendment, to weaken unions; an amendment to endow fetuses with the full legal rights of personhood, an amendment to eliminate affirmative action, an amendment to stop giving the oil and gas industry preferential tax treatment, and an amendment to provide funding to provide care for adults with disabilities.
I believe our Spanish-speaking brothers and sisters also should be able to vote on these critical issues, too.