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March 15, 2016 • 4:51 pm
Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
Wow. A Hindi receipt. Seems like lots of North Indians live in the area where you voted.
That is the Devanagari script, but it’s used for over a hundred different languages. However, there is a large Indian community in the north part of Chicago (centered on Devon Avenue), and I believe that Hindi is the most common non-English language there. There’s also quite a few Punjabi speakers, but in India, at least, for the latter language Devanagari has been replaced with a script called Gurmukhī.
In any case, the languages used on Chicago voting receipts are not necessarily representative of one’s voting district; the same receipt is used citywide.