Voting law will affect languages</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Voting law will affect languages"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Voting,law,will,affect,languages"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">11-08-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Voting law will affect languages</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">New Jersey, USA (Philippine News Online): A 40-year old voting law passed in the heyday of the civil rights movement is set to expire in 2007, and unless reauthorized could affect the way minorities, including Filipinos, elect their officials. <br>Key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) are set to expire, and one of them is the voting assistance provision, which provides language assistance to voters in immigrant-rich districts. Section 203 identifies the states of Alaska, California, Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Washington, as among those jurisdictions where immigrant communities will be given language assistance. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.philippinenews.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=f0ed5b38dd2fdcf4bb5eb32b695618b4 " target="blank">www.philippinenews.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=f0ed5b38dd2fdcf4bb5eb32b695618b4 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show