No English, no vote?

There's an old story about the black citizen who shows up at a Mississippi clerk's office in the 1960s to register to vote. He's told that's fine, but he must first pass a literacy test.

The clerk hands him a piece of paper with something written on it -- in Greek.

"Well, can you read that and tell me what it says?" the clerk asks.

"Yes, I can," the would-be voter says. "It says no black people are going to be voting here in this election."

That came to mind, for some reason, when reading George Will's column today, arguing against bilingual ballots. His argument is that if you can't speak English, you can't possibly know enough about the political debate to make an informed choice and cast a ballot. Sounds like Greek to me.