There was a constitutional amendment passed by the House on language during voting:
While personally I don't see why someone would go to the trouble of changing language of ballot and find it more trouble than fun, I oppose this amendment. For some voting in another language is fun or creative and want to be able to do it. It seems people don't want boringness impose on them. We need citizens to vote and accept their creativity so they have fun participating.
I also don't know if it is applicable. If a candidate has a letter like é or ä in his name it could be ruled as not English.
It's an interesting point that you make and there should maybe have been some more clarity in the bill to determine what constituted "an English language ballot". Some names change in different languages, some don't and typing errors could effectively make the vote a different language depending on the word (such as "bleu" instead of "blue"):
For example, with my username in different Latin script languages:
English = Clyde1998
French = Clyde1998
German = Clyde1998
Italian = Clyde1998
Spanish = Clyde1998
Gaelic = Chluaidh1998 (technically only translates if you put "Clyde 1998"
)
Although, if I took North Carolina Yankee:
English = North Carolina Yankee
French = Caroline du Nord Yankee
German = Nordkarolinische Yankee
Italian = Carolina del Nord Yankee
Spanish = Carolina del Norte Yankee
Gaelic = Carolina a Tuath Yankee
The question really should be: can the name be easily identified? The amendment was made after a vote was made in a non-Latin script language that everyone was forced to translate to identify what it was. I could, personally, work out that if someone had voted using the name "Nordkarolinische Yankee" that it's probably a vote for North Carolina Yankee.