Posted on 03/14/2012 3:03:12 PM PDT by tobyhill
The controversy over requiring voters to provide photo IDs has reached the world stage.
The United Nations Human Rights Council is investigating the issue of American election laws at its gathering on minority rights in Geneva, Switzerland.. This, despite the fact that some members of the council have only in the past several years allowed women to vote, and one member, Saudi Arabia, still bars women from the voting booth completely.
Officials from the NAACP are presenting their case against U.S. voter ID laws, arguing to the international diplomats that the requirements disenfranchise voters and suppress the minority vote.
Eight states have passed voter ID laws in the past year, voter ID proposals are pending in 32 states and the Obama administration has recently moved to block South Carolina and Texas from enacting their voter ID measures.
"This really is a tactic that undercuts the growth of your democracy," said Hillary Shelton, the NAACP's senior vice president for advocacy, about voter photo ID requirements.
In a Fox News interview prior to his trip, Shelton said the message from the NAACP delegation to the Human Rights Council is that the photo ID law "undercuts the integrity of our government, if you allow it to happen. It's trickery, it's a sleight-of-hand. We're seeing it happen here and we don't want it to happen to you, and we are utilizing the U.N. as a tool to make sure that we are able to share that with those countries all over the world."
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That is what I have been saying to all of these threads with this issue involved. I have always showed my DL when going to vote in Texas. I have alway thought it was a law required to vote.
If you are a U.S. citizen you should be required by law to have a photo ID period. That is a very logical and smart way to end this issue.
The fact that the NAACP is screaming discrimination in this matter is beyond me considering that other nations involved in the UN don’t even allow women to vote period. Where is the outrage there? The NAACP will always find something to sue or complain over.
Oh, just wait a minute. We have many upstanding New Black Pampers and Ku Klux Klanspersons to monitor polls. We don’t need foreigners. For goodness’ sake, I don’t travel overseas in order to avoid foreigners. I don’t want to put up with them here unless they swear to be upstanding U.S. citizens.
Dems, but this time the NACCP, showing they will gladly throw this nation under the bus for their own devious purposes. This is disgusting and anti-American.
Good point.
those filthy, rotting, disgusting pig democrats are doing everything they can to discredit the next president.
MEMO TO UN: Keep your booger-filled noses out of our states’ business....or come prepared for consequences. You have enough trouble managing your child-molesting, whore-mongering vote supervisors already.
No international organization should have any influence over the domestic policies of the United States.
It appears as though the NAALCP now considers itself as being some kind of freaked out sovereign nation. They need to stay the hell out of OUR elections. And that goes for their third world comrades down at the UN too.
The same United Nations that engages in child sexual slavery, has no problem with West Cost African slave trade, Islamic slave trade of kufir, and Christian geonocide.
Screw these Marxist bastard bottom feeders.
From the same group of Plantation Puppets that brought us the “Tea Party is racist” mantra passed down from their white masters
http://redsideoflife.blogspot.com/2012/03/exposed-how-eric-holder-plans-to-make.html
“Under the Supremacy Clause, treaties take precedence over state law and bind all judges to adhere to that principle in their courts. In other words, treaties trump state laws”
Right so don’t count on the GOP .
Since primaries are going on one or two smart and strong candidates could nail that.
Conservative radio talk show could and should nail that.
It could become a campaign important issue
Obama is their puppet , Soros one of their funders and they pretend to rule the world....They use islam as a tool against us . It’s a war
A strong, self-assured America would tell the UN to piss off.
But, we’re not that country anymore.
Why is the U.S. hosting in our country an organization that does not respect our sovereignty?
Let handed sheet metal screws for left handed sheet metal mechanics.
Time to move the UN to a nice secluded island. We provide them with materials to build a small building for shelter and let them see how well their communist ideas work out.
“This really is a tactic that undercuts the growth of your democracy,” said Hillary Shelton, the NAACP’s senior vice president for advocacy, about voter photo ID requirements.”
This isn’t a democracy. When this idiot windbag said this, all credibility went out the door like a fart in the wind.
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