Posted on 08/23/2016 5:44:50 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe aims to send 500 international observers to observe November's U.S. presidential election, a tenfold increase from the number the group deployed in 2012.
A coalition of more than 200 U.S. civil rights groups urged the OSCE in a letter released on Tuesday to provide even more than the 500 observers the OSCE requested based on an assessment it conducted in May. The actual observers will be dispatched by the international security and rights organization's 57 participating states.
The letter from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights said the OSCE's role was "even more critical" in light of the U.S. Justice Department's July announcement, first reported by Reuters, that it would deploy election observers to far fewer polling sites this year than in previous elections.
Civil rights advocates say voters are more likely to face racial bias at the polls in November than they have in 50 years, because of voting laws that several states passed after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the landmark anti-discrimination 1965 Voting Rights Act three years ago.
Supporters of the laws say they are necessary to combat voter fraud.
Earlier this month, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made his own plea for election observers before an audience in Pennsylvania and said the only way he could lose the state would be if "in certain sections of the state they cheat."
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I hope they go to Philadelphia first. DOJ sees nothing wrong with BLM types standing in the doorway with clubs.
In 2012, both Texas and Iowa threatened to arrest ‘international election observers’ if they trespassed into voting locations. Non-citizens of any kind shouldn’t be allowed near any voting. I am not aware of any federal or state law allowing them.
They can just stay the f-— outa here.
I don't care who you are - if you're a citizen of this country and you only vote once, fine by me.
"International observers" have no place in American polls.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe wants to help the DemoRat Globalist Progs cheat Hellary into the White Hut.
I do hope someone is going to address the large scale fraud that occurred in the last election. Address as in “come up with an actionable plan to prevent”, not wring our hands and hope it doesn’t happen again.
Poll watchers need to be kept in place by armed law enforcement, for example.
Yep! I agree! Bias against **whites**!
No 1is we have voter ID and a good cross check system.
No.2 We have a computerized electorate that notes if a absentee ballot has been issued, they would not be allowed to vote but would be issued a “Provisional Ballot” which the county election commission will review, the pollster is invited to attend hearing ... no show no vote
My only fear is what happens once I turn over all my sim cards from the machines they go to the data center and I don't know if there is oversight there
Who the hell do these dumb bastards think they are and why are they being given visas? They should be arrested if they show up anywhere near the polls. America is STILL a sovereign nation. We don’t need foreign fraudsters interfering in our elections.
They must be worried Hillary won’t be able to steal the election without help.
I doubt they will confront the panthers as the panthers block entrance to White voters.
There have been similar groups doing this in the past. Their general reaction is “You don’t require ID? You’re kidding aren’t you?”
Foreign observers should be shot at dawn.
Come on down folks...
Who runs our elections? We do.
We don’t need 500 international “Jimmy Carters” running around shooting their mouths off.
What the hell?
I am very concerned about voter fraud. How do we protect against it?
I wonder what the connection is between international Clinton Foundation donors and these international observers.
As a poll manager, can you ensure that the GOP has equal access to the polling machines before the station opens ?
Yes
What’s next Jimmuh Carter
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