Okay, not really.
Rep. Angie Chen Button, R-Garland, thinks she has just the thing to save the voter ID bill and the session. One of the objections to bill is the problem with transliteration of Asian names and others that use different alphabets than the Roman one. You remember when this originally came up – it resulted in Rep. Betty Brown, R-Terrell, sticking her foot deeply into her mouth and drawing nationwide ridicule.
Button announced today that she had come up with the solution, an amendment that, according to her press release, “adds a training requirement for poll workers on appropriate practices for accepting a voter. The amendment will better prepare poll workers to handle such issues as the transliteration of names, cultural mores and linguistic variation. The amendment then allows an election judge to accept a vote if the information on the identification presented is a reasonable representation of the name on the poll list.”
Great! Now she needs to fix the 30 other things wrong with SB 362.
This article appears in May 22 • 2009.