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...report, entitled “Democracy Spoiled,” exposes problems with ballot spoilage—ballots cast but not counted—at the national, state and county levels in the November 2000 election...
...report also found that counties with large black populations were the most highly affected by ballot spoilage issues, thus disadvantaging black voters...
...latest controversy in the campaign could hurt Johnson. The South Dakota Democratic Party announced last week that it had dismissed a campaign worker suspected of falsifying absentee-ballot applications in the party's effort to register thousands of new voters on Native American reservations. Johnson insists that he was not involved in the operation, but Thune's campaign suggests it was part of Johnson's strategy to "win at any cost." One thing seems clear: a campaign that everyone thought couldn't get any uglier or more expensive shows every sign of doing just that...
Ultimately, bilingual education is the best way to integrate non-native speakers into mainstream society because they will be able to rejoin their peers in the classroom after three years at the most without being at an academic disadvantage. The ballot initiative, as proposed by Unz, will take away the resources necessary to integrate students effectively into American academic and social life and cause them to fall behind in their studies without providing the support networks necessary for them to catch...
...course, when students are young (K-2, for example), it makes sense to immerse non-native English speakers because teachers are still teaching the English language even to young native speakers. The problem with the ballot initiative occurs mostly in the later grades when the academic vocabulary necessary for high performance is more complicated. As a result, non-native English speakers don’t gain anything from their academic experience...