TY - BOOK AU - Tucker,James Thomas TI - Battle over bilingual ballots : language minorities and political access under the voting rights act T2 - Election law, politics, and theory SN - 9780754675723 AV - KF4896.L56 T83 2009 U1 - 342.720973 22 PY - 2009/// CY - England PB - Ashgate KW - United States KW - Voting Rights Act of 1965 KW - Linguistic minorities KW - Suffrage N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-391) and indexes; Literacy test bans before 1975 -- Language assistance for voters before 1975 -- Special protections for language minority voters since 1975 -- Language assistance and voter assistance since 1975 -- The July 2002 determinations and section 203 coverage -- Implementation and cost of language assistance in covered jurisdictions -- Passage of the Voting Rights Act Reauthorization Act of 2006 -- Debunking ten myths about language assistance -- Discrimination against Alaska natives -- Remedying language discrimination in the Bethel census area of Alaska -- Essays on language assistance under the VRA ER -