UN Affiliate Will Monitor U.S. Elections (October 2012 story)

ABC ^

[TigerClaws]

The upcoming presidential elections will be observed by election monitors from countries that have their own issues with democracy.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a group that has observed U.S. elections since 2002, is sending dozens of monitors from around the world to monitor the presidential and congressional elections in the United States this November.

As CNS News reports, 12 of those monitors come from countries that Freedom House ranks "not free," specifically Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and six come from countries ranked "partly free."

The highly regarded democracy watchdog notes that Kazakhstan's 71-year-old president recently won a new five-year term in a snap election with more than 96 percent of the vote. And Belarus has jailed former presidential candidates for protesting flawed elections.

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A recent OSCE report said that "recent state-level legislative initiatives to limit early voting and introduce stricter voter identification have become highly polarized. Democrats are concerned that these would disenfranchise eligible voters, while Republicans believe they are necessary to protect the integrity of the vote."

Different activist groups, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) sent a letter to the head of the monitoring team urging him to post monitors in states where voting ID laws and early voting restrictions have gone into effect.

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Hilary Shelton, the senior vice president for policy and advocacy with the NAACP, says the monitors are a good thing, even if some of them come from countries regarded as less than free.

"We have plenty of flawed election systems around the world including our own," Shelton said. "These are people that are all trained by the OSCE and they all know what to look for."

[TigerClaws]

NAACP and Democrats inviting in the UN (including from countries WITHOUT free elections) to monitor our voting as they said the system was rigged against them.

Trump says it and it's terrible, unAmerican, etc.

Democrats say it four years ago and it gets favorable news coverage.

Ironically the big 'threat' to democracy was, according to Democrats, requiring proper identification. Preventing vote fraud = rigging the election.

[God luvs America]

U.N. Poll Watchers Baffled U.S. Doesn’t Require I.D. to Vote

Those of us who thought U.N election observers would be completely worthless or unhelpful today, were wrong. U.N. observers are expressing their surprise at how much trust Americans put into the election system without verification and cannot believe Voter I.D. isn’t a national requirement to vote.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/11/06/un_poll_watchers_baffled_us_doesnt_require_id_to_vote

[TigerClaws]

Remember in 2012, Obama endorsed the UN monitoring claiming he’d give immunity to the poll watchers:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/13415-obama-backs-un-linked-election-monitors-but-texas-stands-firm

No outrage or NYT op eds condemning Obama followed.

[Obadiah]

Will any children be raped?

[dp0622]

Would he have given immunity to me if i knocked one of them the #### out for getting near me?

[Don Corleone]

We are now officially “Third World”.

[jjotto]

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/iowa-warns-international-observers-of-arrest/

...10/31/2012

Iowa has joined Texas in warning international election observers of possible criminal prosecution if they violate state laws and get near polling places on Election Day.

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.)...

[dp0622]

Yeah WTF??

I wouldn’t answer a question or listen to anything any of these ####s said and if they got me annoyed, they’d need medical care.

[DannyTN]

Generally, I'd say more monitors are better. But if these countries aren't free, then they may overlook practices that should be called out. And/or they could side with the party they want to win, instead of making sure the election is truly free.

DannyTN's Guide to Restoring Electoral Integrity - Version 1

1. Hire multiple audit firms to come up with best electoral practices with the following goals:
   • Ensure that only eligible voters vote.
   • Voters only vote once and in one jurisdiction.
   • Security electronic machines and verifying that the code is public and has not been tampered with.
   • Securing the voting and vote collection process so that the opportunity by any party is limited.
2. Bring the audit firms together and work out a standard set of practices.
3. Develop a scorecard that so that each poll station can be measured against the standard set.
4. Audit states and poll stations prior to elections and make the scorecard results public with recommendations to improve.
5. Audit during elections to make sure the practices are correctly applied.
6. Make all standards and results public.
7. Make all steps of the collection process public. (Except of course keep the individual vote anonymous.

[reasonisfaith]

Only if each individual representing the UN has a functioning, portable polygraph machine attached to their body and turned on at all times while they’re on our soil.

[Rusty0604]

We used to be the most powerful nation in the world, yet we didn’t use that power to harm but rather to help the rest of the world. Some leftists infiltrating our government didn’t like that and decided we needed to humble ourselves and declare ourselves deplorable.

[Rusty0604]

Good to see.

[Libertynotfree]

Tell them to button out our family business.

[Libertynotfree]

Tell them to butt out our family business.