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    United Nations to monitor conservative groups at polling places

    United Nations to monitor conservative groups at polling places
    OCTOBER 20, 2012

    Monitors from the United Nations-affiliated group Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will be monitoring the activities of conservative groups at polling places in the United States this November, The Hill reported Saturday.

    Alexander Bolton wrote that the monitors will be "looking for voter suppression activities by conservative groups, a concern raised by civil rights groups during a meeting this week."

    The term "voter suppression" is the phrase often used to describe efforts at eliminatingvoter fraud.

    According to Bolton, 44 monitors from countries like Germany, France, Serbia, Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan will "monitor an array of activities, including potential disputes at polling places."

    The move has conservatives alarmed, even though the OSCE has sent observers to monitor U.S. elections for years.

    The reason conservative-leaning groups like True the Vote are concerned is that liberal organizations like the NAACP and the ACLU claim that conservatives are engaged in "a coordinated political effort to disenfranchise millions of Americans — particularly traditionally disenfranchised groups like minorities.”

    “These activist groups sought assistance not from American sources, but from the United Nations,” True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht told The Hill. “The United Nations has no jurisdiction over American elections.”

    The OSCE, however, says that it will "observe the overall election process, not just the ballot casting.”

    “They are focusing on a number of areas on the state level, including the legal system, election administration, the campaign, the campaign financing [and] new voting technologies used in the different states,” said OSCE spokeswoman Giovanna Maiola.

    But The Hill said that "observers will follow up on the concerns raised by civil rights groups."

    “We attended their meeting, we took note of the issues they raised and we asked our observers in the field to follow up on them,” Maiola said. The Hill did not say if OSCE representatives met with True the Vote.

    Last December, we reported that the NAACP petitioned the United Nations, claiming that efforts to stop voter fraud are really schemes to prevent minorities from voting.

    True the Vote, a Houston-based organization designed to "restore integrity to the American system of electing its leaders," has come under fire from the Democratic Party and the Obama campaign.

    Robert Stacy McCain wrote Friday that the organization "has been targeted by threats of investigations, lawsuits and criminal prosecution."

    "Democrats and their allies perversely claim that it is somehow illegal for True the Vote to help prevent criminal violations of election law," he wrote.

    Thanks to efforts by True the Vote, Florida law enforcement officials are now looking into allegations that "two people may have broken the law by voting in two different states in a previous election," the Miami Herald reported Thursday.

    Nevertheless, the organization is now under scrutiny by the United Nations, thanks in part to groups like the NAACP who traditionally oppose voter ID laws and other attempts to stop voter fraud.

    Despite efforts by the left, Engelbrecht says True the Vote "may surpass a million volunteers" at the polls in November

    “But we’re very excited about the level of enthusiasm, the number of volunteers, and the fact that we had a positive impact in bringing awareness to this important issue, of election integrity," she said.

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    The individual states can stop this - contact your representatives and your governor.
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    That is the last straw. We do not need the United Nations acting like the United States has a voter intimidation problem. We have a Black Panther and illegal alien problem, not Conservatives abusing minorities.

    We need to run the United Nations out of our states and elections and cut off all funding to the United Nations.

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    I don't suppose they will also check into the failure to deliver ballots to our military men and women. Oh, no, because they tend to vote Republican.
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    I can't find any statement by the OSCE itself that it is particularly concerned with conservative groups--only the claim by liberal groups that they have warned the OSCE of potential suppression by conservative groups. The OSCE claims, "The limited election observation mission's deployment follows an invitation from the authorities of the United States." I wonder who in the U.S. government invited them? The OSCE article on this is at OSCE/ODIHR opens mission to observe general elections in United States - Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights .

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    Alabama legislator wants to block United Nations from sending poll watchers

    Alex Pappas/Daily Caller
    10/23/2012
    The Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives is calling for state legislation that would keep poll watchers sent by the United Nations out of his state on Election Day.

    “The United States is the worldwide beacon of free elections and the Republican form of government, so having an international squad from the United Nations playing referee in our elections is insulting and absurd,” Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard said, according to the Yellow Hammer Politics blog.

    “We’ve been holding elections in the U.S. for the past 223 years without the United Nations playing a role or enforcing the rules, and we certainly don’t want or need them now,” he said.

    Hubbard said that in order to prevent U.N. poll watchers from interfering with Alabama elections, he would support future state legislation requiring poll watchers to have U.S citizenship.

    Hubbard’s comments came in response to news reports that a United Nations-affiliated group is planning to send election monitors to America to keep an eye on whether conservative groups try to suppress votes in November. (RELATED: United Nations organization set to monitor US polling places on Election Day)

    “If you can’t participate in an election in the United States, and if you can’t cast a vote in the United States, you really have no business serving as a poll watcher in an election being held in the United States,” Hubbard said, according to the blog.

    The federal government, he added, already keeps a close eye on Alabama during elections.

    “It’s bad enough that Alabama remains trapped under the provisions of the Voting Rights Act, so we certainly don’t need anyone from the United Nations coming into our state and meddling in our elections, as well,” he said.

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