Secretaries of state throughout the country can either protect our democracy or destroy it. Remember Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris in 2000, and Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell in 2004.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 requires that Spanish-speaking voters, and other language minorities, be given interpreters at the polls. The Bush Justice Department has sued Boston, Springfield, Lowell and Lawrence for their failure to supply interpreters. Secretary William Galvin has not done his job.

Read more of this letter in the Berkshire Eagle.