Access to election ballots in languages other than English directly impacts the democratic participation of many immigrants in the U.S., largely immigrants of color, and thus has become an important and controversial issue in twenty-first century American politics. This paper investigates the relationship between attitudes toward multiracial political coalitions and the issue of language rights in U.S. elections. I examine for whom and to what extent the belief that blacks, Latinos, and Asian Americans can be political allies determines attitudes toward English only or multilingual election ballots. Using survey data collected just prior to the 2008 presidential election (nationally representative with oversamples of blacks, Latinos, and Asians), I examine the effects of interracial interactions and cross-racial alliances on support for election ballots in multiple languages. I discuss variation along lines of race, class, and nativity and show that, in public attitudes toward minority language voting rights, it is critical to draw out theoretically and empirically significant differences both across and within racial groups. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]