Foreign language voter assistance latest move by Secretary of State

By D.A. King, Marietta Daily Journal, October 14, 2016

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Summary:

To no one’s surprise, the leftists in the illegal alien lobby were quick to offer their gratitude and applause for Kemp’s progressiveness. Along with the ‘Asian Americans Advancing Justice,’ Jerry Gonzalez of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials Corp. immediately sent out his own press release.

What if you don’t understand simple English but want to vote in Georgia? No problem! Georgia’s Secretary of State, Republican Brian Kemp, has produced foreign-language instruction videos to help you out! Welcome to GOP Georgia.

A recent press release from Secretary Kemp proudly boasts of his “new video tutorials in English, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish and Vietnamese on voter registration, absentee voting by mail, advance in-person voting, and Election Day voting.”

“These new resources will help voters who are non-English speakers know how to register to vote and prepare to cast their ballot” says Kemp. “Georgia is not a ‘covered jurisdiction’ under the federal Voting Rights Act to offer election information in other languages,” Kemp’s release informs us.

For now, actual ballots are still printed in English.

In Obama’s transformed, multi-language, open-borders America, maybe it is possible to have American-born citizens who do not speak English. But most schoolchildren and all naturalized Americans understand that with very few exceptions, the ability to speak, read and understand simple English is a requirement for naturalization — and that it is a crime for non-citizens to vote in Georgia elections.

Here is yet another example of the weakness of the 1996 state law making English Georgia’s official language and how today’s political class ignores it.

This writer phoned the Gold Dome office of Secretary Kemp last week for answers to a few questions, but the promised return call never came. So, maybe readers will have enough curiosity on the topic to call themselves. The phone number for the Georgia Secretary of State office is 404-656-2881.

One of the questions in mind was why Secretary Kemp limited his executive decision to include only five foreign languages. Why not French, German or Somali? Why not Cantonese? Why not all of the many distinct — and mutually unintelligible — languages spoken in China alone?

Why not at least match the “it’s good for business” inclusiveness of Governor Deal’s Department of Driver Services, which has been issuing drivers licenses to illegal aliens since July of 2012 and offers the written drivers license exam in ten foreign languages?

Indeed, why not fast forward and officially convert Georgia into a welcoming place to live, do business and vote by accommodating every language? If we are going to voluntarily cater to non-English speaking voters, why not all of them? A catalog of the world’s languages, “Ethnologue,” details a list of 6,909 distinct languages. It seems unfair — maybe even “hate” — if we are only partially inclusive, right?

To no one’s surprise, the leftists in the illegal alien lobby were quick to offer their gratitude and applause for Kemp’s progressiveness. Along with the ‘Asian Americans Advancing Justice,’ Jerry Gonzalez of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials Corp. immediately sent out his own press release.

“We hope this is the beginning of the Secretary of State’s Office offering more in-language voter education materials and continue to support Asian Americans, Latinos, and all People of Color as we carry on our fight for full access to participation in American Democracy.”

It is a complete shocker that skin color was injected into this little political caper, eh?

Corporate-funded GALEO is widely recognized as Georgia’s most visibly tribalist and extreme advocacy group against official English and enforcement of American immigration laws. They are threatening a federal lawsuit demanding foreign language voter ballots in Georgia.

In January, Georgia’s U.S. Sen. David Perdue stood against an Obama nomination for a GALEO board member, fundraiser and tactician, Dax Lopez, who was picked for a lifetime appointment as a federal judge in Georgia. Because of Senator Perdue’s brave but lonely stand and educated objections to Lopez’s association with the radical GALEO, Lopez was exposed and then denied that federal bench seat by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Lopez would have served in the same North Georgia district court that GALEO’s foreign language ballot lawsuit would be heard.

Readers who pay attention may remember that Georgia’s Secretary of State Kemp was one of several Republicans who attended an annual “Power Breakfast” GALEO fundraiser gala in May 2015.

In any language, this all looks like an example of what to expect from the Establishment Republican promise to be more “inclusive” and their effort to be more Dem-like to stay in office.

It will be interesting to see what Republicans think about it in the coming gubernatorial primaries.

Kemp’s videos can be viewed on his YouTube page— BrianKempGA.

D.A. King is president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society. He is not a member of any political party. (http://www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org)

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