California Election Officials Struggle to Translate “Americans Elect” Into Spanish
January 20th, 2012California, like many other states, prints ballots and other election material in Spanish in certain parts of the state. The California Secretary of State has struggled with how to translate “Americans Elect” into Spanish, and has finally concluded that the name is too generic, and can’t be literally translated. So, “Americans Elect” will be on voter registration cards, and on ballots, as “Partido Americans Elect.”
UPDATE: Americans Elect has told California election officials that it wants its name translated into Spanish, so the Secretary of State is reconsidering.
January 20th, 2012 at 3:08 pm
That’s strange. I would have thought that “Americanos Eligen” would have sufficed to convey the meaning, even if it sounded slightly unusual in Spanish.
January 20th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
[...] Source: Ballot Access News [...]
January 20th, 2012 at 4:38 pm
[ ] Yo prefiero el Partido de los Estadounidenses Eligen
January 20th, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Will California also be translating California into English?
January 20th, 2012 at 8:22 pm
How about Gringos Electo ???
January 20th, 2012 at 8:27 pm
A need to bring Democracy into Hispanic regimes — even the HARD Way ???
see the old EVIL Spanish monarchy regimes (think Spanish Armada in 1588) — Franco in the EVIL Spanish Civil War in 1936-1939 — with F in control to about 1976.
January 24th, 2012 at 11:30 am
[...] another article at Ballot Access News reports that election officials in California, the state with the largest number of Spanish [...]