TY - BOOK AU - Tucker,James Thomas TI - The battle over bilingual ballots: language minorities and political access under the Voting Rights Act SN - 9780754675723 (hbk. : alk. paper) U1 - 342.73072 PY - 2009/// CY - Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate Pub. KW - Linguistic minorities KW - Suffrage KW - United States 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 -