It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => Politics/Legislation/Elections => Topic started by: Pandora on October 24, 2012, 05:59:10 PM
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... Texas AG replies, "Nuts!" (http://www.redstate.com/2012/10/23/texas-attorney-general-warns-osce-on-election-observations/)
"Left-wing groups have gone to international organizations in the run up to this election, seeking to apply global governance to the United States. The results of this is that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE, not the UN as is often reported) has announced it will send election observers, with the implication that Voter ID laws are a problem.
Now, the reason they’re only investigating Republican-run areas is that Republicans would never run to the OSCE or anyone else to interfere with American elections. But that said, we must not let the OSCE observers think they are above the law. The OSCE is a voluntary organization and it has no binding authority over anyone, which is why Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has warned the OSCE that Texas laws will apply, including bars on unlawful entry of polling places.
Abbott wasn’t shy as he closed his letter:
Elections and election observation are regulated by state law. The Texas Election Code governs anyone who participates in Texas elections—including representatives of the OSCE. The OSCE’s representatives are not authorized by Texas law to enter a polling place. It may be a criminal offense for OSCE’s representatives to maintain a presence within 100 feet of a polling place’s entrance. Failure to comply with these requirements could subject the OSCE’s representatives to criminal prosecution for violating state law."
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Didn't we have this somewhere already? I remember commenting about ratting out these clowns if I see them at my polls! Resist we much!
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Yah, good chance it's around here somewhere else. Partzheimer's.
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I gotz somethinzheimerz! :P
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Texas sparks international row with election observers (http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/un-treaties/264121-texas-sparks-international-row-with-election-observers)
"Texas authorities have threatened to arrest international election observers, prompting a furious response from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
“The threat of criminal sanctions against [international] observers is unacceptable,” Janez Lenar?i?, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), said in a statement. “The United States, like all countries in the OSCE, has an obligation to invite ODIHR observers to observe its elections.”
Lawmakers from the group of 56 European and Central Asian nations have been observing U.S. elections since 2002, without incident. Their presence has become a flashpoint this year, however, as Republicans accuse Democrats of voter fraud while Democrats counter that GOP-inspired voter ID laws aim to disenfranchise minority voters.
... Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) also weighed in, tweeting “No UN monitors/inspectors will be part of any TX election process; I commend @Txsecofstate for swift action to clarify issue.”
In letters to Abbott and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose State Department invited the 44 election observers, Lenar?i? reiterated that the group is only there to observe the elections.
“Our observers are required to remain strictly impartial and not to intervene in the voting process in any way,” Lenar?i? said in a statement. “They are in the United States to observe these elections, not to interfere in them.”
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland sought to tone down the controversy during her briefing Thursday. The department is eager to avoid giving the impression that the United States is unwilling to submit to the same scrutiny it demands of others when it comes to human and civil rights.
“Since the initial issue with Texas we've received a letter, both for Secretary Clinton and one for Texas authorities, from the OSCE assuring us and Texas authorities that the OSCE observers are committed to following all U.S. laws and regulations as they do in any country where they observe elections and they will do so as well in Texas,” Nuland said. "To my knowledge [Texas] is the only state that came forward and said 'please reassure us that you're going to follow our state electoral law.' And they have now been reassured.""
This Nuland woman obviously has reading comprehension problems.
Texas AG's letter to the OSCE warned the organization that its representatives “are not authorized by Texas law to enter a polling place” and that it “may be a criminal offense for OSCE’s representatives to maintain a presence within 100 feet of a polling place's entrance.”
Having the OSCE iterate that they're "only there to observe" the election does not reassure anyone that they will not violate prohibitions against their presence IN the polling place, nor to breach the 100 foot entrance buffer.
So, if they try to pull their "as world election watchdogs, we don't need no steenkeen batches", I see arrests in their futures.
H/T Drudge
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Other states need to follow the Texas lead. It appears libs want to use this as a version OF voter intimidation. They have no place in our election process.
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Some may say that ideally, the UN observers would avoid Texas and avoid confrontation. Some may say that ideally, Texas would recant their opposition and allow the UN observers to observe.
To me, ideally, the UN observers would disobey the Texas warning, get confronted, resist arrest, get tased, and crack their head open as they fall to the pavement, unfortunately dying in the waaambulance on the way to receive their ObamaCare.
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Some may say that ideally, the UN observers would avoid Texas and avoid confrontation. Some may say that ideally, Texas would recant their opposition and allow the UN observers to observe.
To me, ideally, the UN observers would disobey the Texas warning, get confronted, resist arrest, get tased, and crack their head open as they fall to the pavement, unfortunately dying in the waaambulance on the way to receive their ObamaCare.
If I were Texas...I'd let them in, but reserve the right to choose the precinct they can watch. I believe I read of a new precinct by the border, where the mexican cartel roam.
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Some may say that ideally, the UN observers would avoid Texas and avoid confrontation. Some may say that ideally, Texas would recant their opposition and allow the UN observers to observe.
To me, ideally, the UN observers would disobey the Texas warning, get confronted, resist arrest, get tased, and crack their head open as they fall to the pavement, unfortunately dying in the waaambulance on the way to receive their ObamaCare.
If I were Texas...I'd let them in, but reserve the right to choose the precinct they can watch. I believe I read of a new precinct by the border, where the mexican cartel roam.
Heh, stray Obama/Holder bullets fired by cartel banditos might find OSCE noodles!
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Here is the target list of OSCE asshats -
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/10/united-nations-releases-complete-list-of-us-election-observation-points/ (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/10/united-nations-releases-complete-list-of-us-election-observation-points/)
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Coming to Raleigh, NC, are they? Hmmmm ........
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Yeah, the idiots heading for St. Paul better not stray north, the welcoming committee may not be so welcoming!
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Great....Nashville gets frenchy. We'll have him retreating in no time.
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WTF? No New Orleans, Chicago, E. St. Louis? They don't want any conflict or actual confrontations, I guess.
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They checkin on wasist wepubwecans.
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They checkin on wasist wepubwecans.
In Trenton? (That city's on the list.) There are no Republicans in Trenton; even the Republicans elected to the Joisey state government aren't Republicans.
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They checkin on wasist wepubwecans.
In Trenton? (That city's on the list.) There are no Republicans in Trenton; even the Republicans elected to the Joisey state government aren't Republicans.
Camouflage. Distraction.
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Iowa chimes in ...
"Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz — like Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott last week — on Tuesday threatened Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe election observers with arrest if they came within 300 feet of a polling place’s entrance, in violation of state law. (In Texas, it’s 100 feet.)"
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/83108.html#ixzz2AuEz0s7u (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/83108.html#ixzz2AuEz0s7u)
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Iowa chimes in ...
"Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz — like Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott last week — on Tuesday threatened Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe election observers with arrest if they came within 300 feet of a polling place’s entrance, in violation of state law. (In Texas, it’s 100 feet.)"
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/83108.html#ixzz2AuEz0s7u (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/83108.html#ixzz2AuEz0s7u)
::cool::
MOAR!
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Just another reason to get US out of the UN. I see they are sending two socialists to Denver. Denver will probably escort them around and allow them to stand in the voting booths.
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Just another reason to get US out of the UN. I see they are sending two socialists to Denver. Denver will probably escort them around and allow them to stand in the voting booths.
(Sound of a scuffle and a short moan)
Poll worker rushing to booth - "What's going on here? What happened to that man?"
Voter - "He slipped and hit his face, better have someone look at that."
::evil::
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Heh, IMAO has a nice thread on what to do if you see a OSCE moron on election day -
http://www.imao.us/index.php/2012/11/straight-line-of-the-day-if-you-see-a-un-observer-at-your-polling-place/ (http://www.imao.us/index.php/2012/11/straight-line-of-the-day-if-you-see-a-un-observer-at-your-polling-place/)
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There are a couple of pretty good responses there, Libertas.
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I was just thinking, I wonder how the leftards would feel if the tea party,and right wing folks in the US, requested members of the Canadian Conservative party to monitor some crooked democrats voting stations. We probably have a fugg of a lot more credibility than the UN.
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Heh, IMAO has a nice thread on what to do if you see a OSCE moron on election day -
http://www.imao.us/index.php/2012/11/straight-line-of-the-day-if-you-see-a-un-observer-at-your-polling-place/ (http://www.imao.us/index.php/2012/11/straight-line-of-the-day-if-you-see-a-un-observer-at-your-polling-place/)
I'd cock punch and burn that muthafukka down!!