Fox News Interview: Coffman Plans To End Unfunded Federal Mandate On Dual-Language Ballots

Rep. Coffman joins Fox News host Shannon Bream on August 21, 2011 to talk about his plan to introduce legislation that will repeal a provision in the 1973 Voting Rights Act that mandates local election officials print ballots in two languages if it is determined that a substantial number of voting-age citizens have limited English proficiency.

Currently, sixteen county clerks in Colorado are bracing for orders from the U.S. Justice Department that would mandate voting materials be printed in both Spanish and English before the off-year elections this November.

Coffman points to Section 203 of the 1973 Voting Rights Act that requires multilingual ballots to be provided to U.S. Citizens who are not considered proficient in English, while at the same time the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, by law, requires all applicants to prove basic English proficiency as a prerequisite for U.S. Citizenship.

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