U.S. District Court Orders Spanish Sample Ballots in 32 Florida Counties, but Does Not Require Bilingual Actual Ballots

On September 7, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Walker issued a 27-page order in Rivera Madera v Detzner, n.d., 1:18cv-152. The issue is whether 32 particular Florida counties should have provided ballots in both English and Spanish, instead of just English. Because the election is so close, the judge denied the request of the plaintiffs for bilingual ballots. But he ordered that the 32 counties publish Spanish-language ballots on their websites.

His order starts with this paragraph, “Here we are again. The clock hits 6:00 a.m. Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You Babe” starts playing. Denizens of and visitors to Punxsutawaney, Pennsylvania eagerly await the groundhog’s prediction. And the state of Florida is alleged to violate federal law in its handling of elections.” A footnote to that paragraph says, “Phil Connors, portrayed by Bill Murray, experienced a similar phenomenon. Groundhog Day (Columbia Pictures Corp. 1993).”


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U.S. District Court Orders Spanish Sample Ballots in 32 Florida Counties, but Does Not Require Bilingual Actual Ballots — 3 Comments

  1. More entertainment stuff in sunny FL (when not fatal hurricanes) ???

    or more 1914 BALKANS type stuff — ie death and destruction in another civil WAR ???

    Any mention of 2000 Bush v Gore ??? —

    MORONS in ALL 3 branches of the Florida regime
    — about *legal votes* in the now infamous punch card ballots (esp in humid Florida).

    See 2002 USA HAVA Law — some specific language written to deal with such FL MORONS.

    Which rotted to the core minority rule gerrymander State has had the most Fed election law cases since 1789 ruling against the State morons involved ???

    May be too difficult even for the BAN super-database to find ???

  2. The court cites ‘Morgan v Katzenbach’ which upheld the provision regarding citizens from Puerto Rico who were denied the right to vote under New York laws requiring literacy in English. In effect the VRA says you can’t have a literacy test that citizens educated in American schools can not pass.

    The court in this case is saying that you have to provide Spanish-language ballots even though there are not a significant number of adult citizens who speak Spanish at home AND do not speak English well.

  3. More PERVERSION stuff in the *court*.

    The 1866 and 1869 Congress folks were totally aware of the definition of elector-voter in ALL of the States when they wrote 14-2 and 15-1 (based on 14-2)

    — possible literacy, taxpayer, property owner, etc. stuff.

    The 1965 VRA has all sorts of PERVERSIONS of 15-1

    — with the usual SCOTUS HACKS upholding such perversions.

    The Congress hacks are totally corrupt in not passing a very simple enforcement law for 15-19-26 Amdts-

    Any public official, Fed/State/Local, who violates 15-19-26 Amdts (A) shall be a FELON and upon conviction shall be imprisoned for life and (B) may have unlimited damages in a civil action against such FELON by each person whose right to vote is violated by such FELON.

    — to GET SERIOUS about the RIGHT to VOTE.

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