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To: FlyingEagle
Here is a writer addressing my question:

Controversy At Houston Election Polling Station
http://blog.chron.com/texassparkle/2012/11/controversy-at-houston-election-polling-station/
blog by Kathleen McKinley

The Houston Chronicle stepped into the fray by quoting a local official, helping to frame the NAACP’s violations as “an effort to help disabled people.”

Even more alarming was the Houston Chronicle’s Mike Morris using a local official’s defense of the NAACP’s violations as a first person/eye witness account — even though the quoted official appeared not to witness the event.

The official, Assistant Harris County Attorney Doug Ray, stated to the paper:

“What the NAACP people were doing was trying to identify people with disabilities and move them to the front of line so they could vote right away out of turn. Our folks were basically saying, ‘We’re not working it that way.’ The activists became very confrontational. We had to calm them down and explain how the thing was supposed to work.”

But then Morris went on to write:

“Ray said he witnessed no electioneering at the Sunnyside polling place but said if people at other sites were advocating for candidates they should have been instructed to stop.”

Of course Ray didn’t witness any such thing; he wasn’t there. Eyewitnesses say they never saw Ray present and the polling station simply wasn’t set up in a way where he could’ve been missed. Of course, it is possible Ray showed up on the scene after the conflict occurred. Even so, the Houston Chronicle described him as an eyewitness giving the impression he actually was there and giving an eye-witness account.

This isn’t the first time the Houston Chronicle was caught using deception in its war against True the Vote and its founder, Catherine Engelbrecht. The fledgling paper has engaged in vote fraud denial previously and even went as far as falsely claiming that Catherine Engelbrecht was under a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation.


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I am still wondering (just curious about this whole "in our faces" incident; where else is this happening as well?) why Assistant Harris County Attorney Doug Ray was interviewed (was it in some official government capacity?), why he made the comments he did (aside from him being a dim party hack), and who the "WE" is.

Eve Rockford's (True the Vote volunteer) sworn statement

23 posted on 11/05/2012 11:17:16 AM PST by cyn (Benghazi. That says it all.)
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To: cyn

One thing we can be sure of is that the monkeys will be in full monkey business mode tomorrow.


24 posted on 11/05/2012 5:36:54 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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