When the only thing you can’t translate is your own credibility
The man who can’t read the ballot is the one saying it’s too complicated.
The story
Chicago offers ballots in 12 languages, which a GOP chair says complicates election monitoring, though most translations are rarely used.
Source: www.foxnews.com
Our reading
The Illinois GOP chair is worried about the 12-language ballots in Chicago, but the real issue seems to be that he’s not sure if he’s allowed to care. He’s not arguing that the system is flawed, just that it’s not his flavor of flawed. And yet, he’s still the one making the rules. The irony is that the same party that once called for English-only policies now acts like the entire system is at risk because of a few Urdu ballots. It’s not the language that’s the problem—it’s the fact that he’s trying to sound like he’s in charge of something he doesn’t understand.
