United Nations to monitor elections for voter fraud suppression by conservatives

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deminks (6,971 posts)

United Nations to monitor elections for voter fraud suppression by conservatives


 
http://politics.kfyi.com/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=104707&article=10511105

(Erica Ritz) -- The Hill is reporting that The Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE), a United Nations partner on democracy and human rights projects, will be deploying several dozen observers across the United States amid concerns of voter suppression. Alerted by left-leaning civil rights groups, they are apparently on the lookout for “systematic” efforts to prevent minorities from voting for President Obama.

The Hill continues:

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.


The Hill link:

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/263141-international-monitors-at-polling-places-draw-criticism-from-voter-fraud-group

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 from its human rights office around the country on Election Day to monitor an array of activities, including potential disputes at polling places. It's part of a broader observation mission that will send out an additional 80 to 90 members of parliament from nearly 30 countries.

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See what the banana republicans have done?
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021595504

liberal N proud (40,987 posts)
1. Who would ever thought this would happen in the USA?

This is the stuff that needs to be done in other parts of the world.

This is a result of how radical the republicans and their teabagger cohorts in terror.

Yeah the nerve of those teabaggers for having a different view than you, and to make matters worse we go out and vote. 

Drahthaardogs (950 posts)
4. Could you imagine what would happen if they find issues?

It would be devastating.

Yes it could be very devastating to the democrats if they happen upon the new black panthers pulling their crap at a polling station, Holder won't stop them maybe the UN will. 

Luminous Animal (15,439 posts)
2. Voter fraud and voter suppression are two entirely different things.

Voter fraud is rare in the extreme. Voter suppression (voter id laws, caging, purging, tossing out registration forms, intimidation at the polls, jamming GOTV phone lines, mailers with false voting day dates, short-changing certain neighborhoods by reducing the number of machines and polling places...) is a systematic issue and the elements combined are the new Jim Crow laws in regards to voting.

 

Politicalboi (8,271 posts)
3. I'm glad to see this happening

I guess even the UN knows what's at stake.

Yeah the UN knows that 0bama will roll over and play dead for them anytime they ask, so of course they will want to do what they can to help him stay in power. Putin is counting on the second term so he doesn't have to worry about our nukes anymore.

[Revolution]

Hell yeah, why not let the UN "monitor" the election? After all, who wouldn't want them to monitor that big night after announcing to people NOT to vote Romney??

 

[docstew]

I look at it like this:
1)Romney wins and they cry foul. We point out how they basically said the only acceptable result is an O win, and their allegations mean about as much as a fart in a tornado, and tell them to pound sand.
2) They try to file suit in court. We claim they have no standing since they are not citizens and have no rights under the Constitution to influence our form of government, and tell them to pound sand.
3) They try to sanction the US for voting improprieties. We cut off funding and tell them to pound sand.
4) They threaten "regime change" through military means. We tell them to bring it, the US army has had 10+ years of combat training and American citizens have 50M+ privately owned weapons.

[franksolich]

What they need to do is place election monitors outside of inner-city polling places, and inside of offices of the urban bosses.

[Duchess]

Any UN "monitering" is only code for "turn a blind eye when the 'rats cheat, when illegals attempt to vote, etc" but make a stink when poll watchers try to make sure US law is upheld by preventing the same.

[Airwolf]

This wouldb't be an issue if it wasn't for things like ACORN.

[BlueStateSaint]

Any UN "monitering" is only code for "turn a blind eye when the 'rats cheat, when illegals attempt to vote, etc" but make a stink when poll watchers try to make sure US law is upheld by preventing the same.

Dead on, and H5 duly given.

[LC EFA]

*snort*

The UN couldn't find their ass with a 1:1 scale map. That is on a good day.

This is just an excuse for a bunch of EUrocrats to come to the US for a junket and piss away a bunch of taxpayers money on booze, whores and luxury hotels.

[whiffleball]

It's all being done for show.  The Diebold machines are already programmed to give the elections to conservative candidates.  This is merely Kabuki theater to assuage leftists.  They don't realize when they're beaten.

[98ZJUSMC]

I look at it like this:
1)Romney wins and they cry foul. We point out how they basically said the only acceptable result is an O win, and their allegations mean about as much as a fart in a tornado, and tell them to pound sand.
2) They try to file suit in court. We claim they have no standing since they are not citizens and have no rights under the Constitution to influence our form of government, and tell them to pound sand.
3) They try to sanction the US for voting improprieties. We cut off funding and tell them to pound sand.
4) They threaten "regime change" through military means. We tell them to bring it, the US army has had 10+ years of combat training and American citizens have 50M+ privately owned weapons.

I vote we just jump to that part and be done with it. 

Threaten regime change..............

*snort*

[98ZJUSMC]

It's all being done for show.  The Diebold machines are already programmed to give the elections to conservative candidates.  This is merely Kabuki theater to assuage leftists.  They don't realize when they're beaten.

Gaaaaaack!  I knew it!!!11!!!eleventy!!!!11!!!

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

If they watch us as well as they watched Saddam for illegal weapon purchases and oil sales, Iran for nukes and their own troops for pedophilia then we have nothing to worry about.

[Wineslob]

Give them a goat, they may go away.

[Skul]

If they tried such a thing, they'd be escorted out and told to stand outside the exclusion zone.
Pure and simple, they have no jurisdiction whatsoever.
Just another DUmmies wet dream.

[J P Sousa]

  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.”
 

Ah yes, the communist organizations hoping with Obama's help to make the USA subserviant to the criminals in the  Useless Nations.

The USA contributes about 22% of the UN's budget. That should be #1 on the budget axe. 
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[Randy]

Ah yes, the communist organizations hoping with Obama's help to make the USA subserviant to the criminals in the  Useless Nations.

The USA contributes about 22% of the UN's budget. That should be #1 on the budget axe. 
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Heyyyyyy maybe we've stumbled onto the Donald's big announcement. I bet he's got redevelopment plans for some prime riverfront manhatten property after the current occupiers are evicted. 

[redwhit]

Give them a goat, they may go away.

They're gonna be shocked when they figure out they can't buy a 13 year old girl for a chicken wing here.

[LC EFA]

Give them a goat, they may go away.

More likely they'd be lined up the next day with all their friends and relations demanding more free goats.

[Linda]

Can we direct the next suicide bombers to the UN building in NYC?

[DefiantSix]

If they tried such a thing, they'd be escorted out and told to stand outside the exclusion zone.
Pure and simple, they have no jurisdiction whatsoever.
Just another DUmmies wet dream.

Thanks. I didn't need to keep my lunch down.

Heyyyyyy maybe we've stumbled onto the Donald's big announcement. I bet he's got redevelopment plans for some prime riverfront manhatten property after the current occupiers are evicted. 

I'll send you the bill for the new monitor, sir. 

[dandi]

*snort*

The UN couldn't find their ass with a 1:1 scale map. That is on a good day.

This is just an excuse for a bunch of EUrocrats to come to the US for a junket and piss away a bunch of taxpayers money on booze, whores and luxury hotels.

^^^This.

According to the story, there's only going to be around 130 of them. Considering that there are tens of thousands of polling places in the U.S. coupled with the fact that a lot of those 130 will be in election offices and other non-polling venues to "observe all aspects of the process" makes this whole thing one big unfunny joke.

Of course, DUmmies lap up this kind of anti-American symbolism.

[Skul]

It seems Alabama is thinking of pushing back.
http://yellowhammerpolitics.com/blog/hubbard-moves-to-block-united-nations-poll-watchers-from-operating-in-alabama/

22 Oct 2012 14 Hubbard Moves to Block United Nations Poll Watchers from Operating in Alabama by Cliff Sims RoleAlabama House of Representatives, anti-un, Mike Hubbard, poll watchers, united nations
Montgomery – In response to news that poll watchers affiliated with the United Nations will be sent across the country to monitor balloting in various states and search for evidence of “voter suppression” during the upcoming November 6 presidential election, Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard said he will support legislation in the next session requiring all poll watchers in Alabama to hold U.S. citizenship.

[Rebel]

American citizens have 50M+ privately owned weapons.

I think you're a little low on your number.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country

As for the UN, if they have a problem with it, they should sanction us. Sanction us with their army. Oh, they don't have an army? Well, I guess they need to shut the **** up.

[Wineslob]

Well I hope these UN people identify themselves, I'd really like to know if they are at my polling place...........

[Rebel]

Well I hope these UN people identify themselves, I'd really like to know if they are at my polling place...........

Just look for the baby blue berets   . They're easily identified through a lens.