There are other laws that guarantee those rights, but I don't know where to find them.  However, numerous state laws limiting those rights have been struck down by state and Federal courts.  One of the more interesting such cases was in Alaska a few years ago when the state banned the use of any language but English in conducting government business at any level in the state.  A Yupik village went to court because members of their town council were monolingual Yupik speakers.  The court shot the law down in short order.

Herb


-----Original Message-----
From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar on behalf of DD Farms
Sent: Mon 5/22/2006 3:51 PM
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Subject: Re: English for Immigrants
 
At 03:33 PM 5/22/2006, Paul E. Doniger wrote:
>Section 4.E of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 states, "(1) Congress 
>hereby declares that to secure the rights under the fourteenth 
>amendment of persons educated in American-flag schools in which the 
>predominant classroom language was other than English, it is 
>necessary to prohibit the States from conditioning the right to vote 
>of such persons on ability to read, write, understand, or interpret 
>any matter in the English language.

DD: But, Nota Bene; it does not require the printing of ballots in 
the other languages, nor the use of interpreters.

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