Loonyism Referendum Tracker

[ZuWo]

As useful as Google Translate may be in many cases, it fails miserably when it comes to certain non-standard language varieties such as for instance Swiss German, my own mother tongue. There are usually many ways in any given language to express approval or disapproval that are more complex than a mere "yes" or "no". What if, for example, I decided to vote "wägemine" or "momoll"? Do you really expect the person who is in charge of counting the votes to figure out what that means, possibly by consulting a dictionary of Swiss German or PMing Atlasians who might be able to understand these words?

In other words, allowing people to vote in any language variety they like can make things utterly messy for federal and regiona voting booth administrators. Because of this and because no one has ever been able to answer the question why it is even necessary to vote in a language other than English, we should only count votes that are cast in English.

[ZuWo]

I can tell what that is. Can you?

What a "Type 99 seabird" or "AHHertog99" is isn't entirely clear. We certainly have nobody registered under those names. All it does is make the process unnecessarily complicated for no reason whatsoever.

Don't play dumb, Samuel McCarthy Joyce. If you're not intelligent enough to know who those people are, then I have no idea what you're doing as Emperor.

I already explained quite clearly how it makes the process a lot longer, and those names certainly aren't as clear as they could be.

But you still haven't answered the Why question.

You will never get an answer. I asked the very same question, and so did Inks and LuminevonReuental (and other Atlasians I'm probably forgetting) in previous debates. The simple reason is that there is no answer. It is not necessary to cast your ballot in a foreign language unless you want to complicate matters or come across as incredibly cool or smart.
Now if we had a substantial number of citizens who were unable to read and write in English I could understand why it is necessary to cast ballots in foreign languages. But that's not the case.