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In D.C. Suburbs, Most Of The Ballot Is Written In Foreign Languages

The vast majority of each page on the voters’ ballots in Fairfax County, Virginia, is written in foreign languages, making it difficult to locate the names of candidates.

Every line on the ballot appears in three different languages besides English. The foreign languages are intended to make it easy for people who are American citizens, but do not speak English at all, to participate in America’s election process.

But the result is a long and unwieldy ballot that is difficult for Americans to decipher. The candidate’s name doesn’t even appear until seven lines below the bubble voters are supposed to fill in for that candidate.

In 2017, Fairfax County, which houses many federal bureaucrats and overwhelmingly votes Democrat, said it would print all ballots with four languages, including Spanish, Vietnamese, and Korean.

The federal government says that the Voting Rights Act of 1965,…

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