Posted on 10/22/2010 10:19:13 AM PDT by kristinn
There are two reports that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) violated electioneering laws inside a polling place and harassed poll watchers at the Acres Home Multiservice Community Center on October 18th.
Liberty Pundits has two eyewitness anonymous sources, a poll watcher and an election clerk, who describe Rep. Jackson Lee speaking with and shaking hands of voters inside a polling place located in the same building as her district office and getting in the faces of poll watchers
KPRC 950 host Michael Berry (@28:45) interviewed Houston poll watcher Catherine Engelbrecht of King Street Patriots/True The Vote on October 19th about what was relayed to her by poll watcher Marcia Ferguson.
Engelbrecht said that the poll watcher complained to the election judge that Jackson Lee was violating the law by campaigning inside the polling place by shaking hands with voters waiting in line to vote.
Engelbrecht did not know the whole story of what happened other than the poll watcher complaining.
Liberty Pundits had a fuller account from their sources who asked for anonymity for their safety:
So the source, a poll watcher, went into the room housing the voting booths and there stood Congresswoman Lee shaking hands with voters and greeting others–clearly electioneering. The poll watcher then went to one of the clerks and asked the presiding judge to take care of it.
While this occurred, the poll watcher heard Lee loudly say to the crowd in the voting area,”I’ve heard a lot of complaints about voter intimidation by poll watchers. I am not going to allow voter intimidation.”
The poll watcher started writing the incident down.
Lee then went to the poll watcher and asked,”What’s your name? Who do you represent?”
A poll watcher is not allowed to speak in the polling area, so directed Congresswoman Lee to the presiding judge. The poll watcher said that Congresswoman Lee indicated that she wanted names to report to the Department of Justice for voter intimidation.
The presiding judge asked Congresswoman Lee to leave.
... This account is backed up by another worker there, an election clerk, who also wished to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. He relayed concern for his safety.
The election clerk described the poll watchers as timid. He said that they stayed out of the way, were quiet and and did not talk to any voters.
He confirms that Congresswoman Lee was, in fact, back near the voting booths and talking to the presiding judge but he did not overhear her conversation but saw her from a distance. He estimated that Sheila Jackson Lee was within 10 feet of the voting machines but was not herself voting. He also witnessed Congresswoman Lee talking to the poll watcher but again, could not hear the contents of the conversation.
The clerk corroborated the poll watcher’s report that there were consistent election law violations in the polling places.
There have been no reports in the media about this reported egregious violation of the law by by a U.S. Congresswoman.
H/t Dan Riehl and BlogHouston.net
I am 50 mi outside of Dallas
This woman is the “ASS” in TexAS.
Wife drives about 50 miles each way, but we love living outside the city where we have 2/3 acre and deer and other wildlife venture into our yard. We moved from a city location that was on the decline in our home state and are very happy now.
She will get away with it because she has skin of color.
I am happy that you are happy.
I think it’d be a fair fight. On one hand, we’ve got the martial arts person. On the other hand, we have a middle-aged (not old, as you suggest) woman (her color matters not, although you state it does) with an established record of being a gross bully and an ass that casts a shadow over an acre or more when the sun is right. The power of a blow from just one of her cheeks could cripple a man for life.
Why is this polling place in the same building as her office this is truly a conflict of interests!
What do you mean by “your own DNC”?
Hoping that was a typo, or error of sorts.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2610882/posts
Poll Watchers Claim Harassment And Intimidation At Houston, Texas Voting Places
Main fraudster is El Franco Lee ,Harris County Commissioner, no relation, I’m sure.
Yeah - a typo - The pigs Barack, Nancy and Harry
PING
And ping other Houstonians, too
Thanks
In Texas it is against the law to use a video recorder or even a telephone while in a polling place.
When I worked a precinct last year, we were reminded that if our personal phones rang, we had to go outside the polling place to answer it, and if we saw anyone using a phone in the polling place, we would have to ask them to go outside or turn their phones off.
Unfortunately, Shiela Jackson Lee will continue to get by with BS because 1) she is black and 2) she represents a predominantly black area.
Wish I would have been that poll watcher. I’d have gotten it that b***h’s face.
Thanks for the map - I was mistaken - I switched Sunnyside and Acres Homes in my head, not that Acres Homes is a more desirable location...
Sorry, I read Acres and my brain decided it was “Sunnyside”....sorry about that
What a great picture...Too bad the seat belt worked...
“The presiding judge asked Congresswoman Lee to leave.”
I would have loved to have done that...
More than likely, I would have loved to say...
“You have the right to remain silent...”
Why O Why did they (Harris County) open an early voting location in the same building as her district office???
Just another reason why we need to clean this house up and NOT have an appointed Elections Administrator who will be unaccountable to the voters in this county to run our elections...
Be aware this idiotic idea is STILL on the docket to be voted on after this election by County Commissioners, one of which is El Franco Lee, of earlier (this week) voting intimidation and voter poll watcher harrasment...
Like I said, seems to be a trend going on down here...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2610882/posts
Lets see how tenacious our DA is here in Harris County...I’m begining to have my doubts...
What a waste of a good Grand jury as far as I am concerned...We could have had this wrapped up before the end of the week...But Nooooooooooo...
“It’s damned scary and disgusting. They are too stupid to know they’re bing screwed and enslaved.”
I think maybe you meant to say that we, the working public, are being screwed and enslaved. You see, Whitey/Honky/Cracker must pay for his/her years of enslavement of the downtrodden. We are not too stupid to know that BUT either:
We don’t want to get involved for fear of some form of retribution or harassment, or
We feel helpless to turn things around.
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