English only ballot bill

Rep. Walter Jones, whose District borders Will's has co-sponsored legislation that calls for an end to Federal laws that require ballots to be printed in multiple - foreign - languages. Here! Here! it is high time this expensive nonsense ends. The US is an English speaking country and people who are American citizens (and therefore legally elegible to vote) should be voting in English. If they want to vote in other lanuages, there are plenty of other countries that expect people to vote in those languages.

The New Bern Sun Journal has more on Rep. Jones' bill:

U.S. Rep. Walter B. Jones co-sponsored a bill introduced on Wednesday to require
all federal elections ballots to be printed in English.
"It is important for people living in the United States to speak and understand English," Jones said. "A common language is what makes a nation one."
"Multi-lingual ballots not only divide American voters by language and cause needless confusion at the polls, they impose an unnecessary financial burden on state and local governments."
The American Elections Act would amend the Help America Vote Act and Voting Rights Act to require English ballots in all U.S. elections except those in which translations of American Indian or Alaskan dialects are needed.

Jones said a poll of Americans in 2006 showed that more than 60 percent of Americans want all U.S. election ballots printed in English only and that Congress should listen.