Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) appears to be channeling Alabama candidate Tim James, made famous last year for his comically xenophobic campaign commercial. On Wednesday, Coffman announced a bill to that would “repeal a section of the 1973 Voting Rights Act that requires jurisdictions with large populations of nonproficient English speakers to print ballots in more than one language.” Elena Nunez, a director with Common Cause, rebuked Coffman’s discriminatory proposal in a statement to the Denver Post. “We are talking about U.S. citizens, whether they were born here or not.” English-only ballots, of course, do nothing to stem undocumented immigration or voter fraud; rather, Coffman’s bill serves only as a measure largely designed to disenfranchise Americans from immigrant backgrounds.
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