Voting material in native languages required in US</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Voting material in native languages required in US"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Voting,material,in,native,languages,required,in,US"> </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">08-08-2005</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 material in native languages required in US</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_uRC9VGmoWzPPA3vsPRkM_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Mississippi, USA (Hattiesburg American): A provision to the US Voting Rights Act requires bilingual ballots and language assistance in areas with large minority populations. The amendment was added in 1975 because English-only ballots were seen as constituting literacy tests for Latinos and American Indians who did not speak English. <br>Under the amendment, 22 counties in Arizona must offer voting materials in several Native American languages or Spanish, nine counties in Mississippi must offer them in Choctaw, and eleven counties in New York must offer them in Spanish, Chinese or Korean. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050806/NEWS01/508060329/1002 " target="blank">www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050806/NEWS01/508060329/1002 </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