Saturday, October 20, 2012

International monitors at US polling places draw criticism

Via Randy

I better not see one when I go to vote.


United Nations-affiliated election monitors from Europe and central Asia will be at polling places around the U.S. looking for voter suppression activities by conservative groups, a concern raised by civil rights groups during a meeting this week. The intervention has drawn criticism from a prominent conservative-leaning group combating election fraud.


The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a United Nations partner on democratization and human rights projects, will deploy 44 observers around the county on Election Day to monitor an array of activities, including potential disputes at polling places.

Liberal-leaning civil rights groups met with representatives from the OSCE this week to raise their fears about what they say are systematic efforts to suppress minority voters likely to vote for President Obama.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the NAACP and the ACLU, among other groups, warned this month in a letter to Daan Everts, a senior official with OSCE, of “a coordinated political effort to disenfranchise millions of Americans — particularly traditionally disenfranchised groups like minorities.”

The request for foreign monitoring of election sites drew a strong rebuke from Catherine Engelbrecht, founder and president of True the Vote, a conservative-leaning group seeking to crack down on election fraud.

“These activist groups sought assistance not from American sources, but from the United Nations,” she said in a statement to The Hill. “The United Nations has no jurisdiction over American elections.”

More @ The Hill

10 comments:

  1. Is my paranoia showing or does this sound like a test run to gauge the sheeple's reaction. If those blue helmet's ever show up here , there won`t be any stopping it. It's going to be on.

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    1. If those blue helmet's ever show up here , there won`t be any stopping it. It's going to be on.

      Agreed. One bridge too far and I hope they are not that stupid.

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    2. They won't be wearing blue helmets unfortunately. Most people if any at all won't even know that they're there. They won't intervene they're there to observe....and um "report". After the election they'll write reports on all the minorities who were suppressed and oppressed and those reports will be the basis for lawsuits trying to overturn the results if close vote tallies in a couple states seem promising. If Comrade President gets stomped in a landslide (likely)the UN will write an outraged report detailing how the first openly Bolshevik president (who is Black incidentally) was cheated out of his second term. As I wrote in another comment while leaving the UN we need to burn it to the ground on our way out.

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    3. Why yes C=4 would be quite useful but I'm not referring to the building I'm talking about the institution and every facet of it.

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    4. Along with all the Collectivists in the world, which would be quite an undertaking.

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  2. Hey! Those are my UN blue helmet targets!
    Evening Brock. :)

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  3. I believe that if UN "observers" are at a polling location.....a judicious amount of pepper spray applied to the invader would be appropriate.

    Just sayin'

    Bob
    III

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