Pittsburgh Tribune Review on DOJ in Cuyahoga County (OH)

The Pittsburgh Tribune Review on the Cuyahoga (OH) case.   Full article here.

“The Weekly Standard reports the Puerto Ricans in question make up 0.5 percent of the county’s 1 million registered voters. Yet Justice has told Cuyahoga elections officials it will sue unless they print ballots in Spanish for all voters in a local-level primary this September — and provide translators, community outreach and additional staff, which could double the county’s election costs.

Neither Justice’s timetable nor its all-or-nothing stance is realistic. Attorney J. Christian Adams, who quit the Justice Department over the New Black Panther travesty, sensibly questions why Cuyahoga County can’t provide — at far less cost — Spanish-language ballots in targeted precincts or by request.

To its credit, Cuyahoga County isn’t backing down. The Department of Justice should. But if it doesn’t, the county should say, “Bring it on” — and let litigation expose, in all its ugliness and for all Americans to see, the Obama administration’s perverse perspective on voting rights.”