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10-25-2012 05:20 PM |
UN to monitor elections
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a United Nations partner on democratization and human rights projects, will deploy 44 observers from its human rights office around the country on Election Day to monitor an array of activities, including potential disputes at polling places. It's part of a broader observation mission that will send out an additional 80 to 90 members of parliament from nearly 30 countries.
Liberal-leaning civil rights groups met with representatives from the OSCE this week to raise their fears about what they say are systematic efforts to suppress minority voters likely to vote for President Obama.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the NAACP and the ACLU, among other groups, warned this month in a letter to Daan Everts, a senior official with OSCE, of "a coordinated political effort to disenfranchise millions of Americans -- particularly traditionally disenfranchised groups like minorities."
Gregg Abbott, the texas state attorney general says no to United Nations observers at texas polling places...
he says they have no jurisdiction in Texas and that Texas law prohibits the interference of outsiders, he said he would be happy to teach them about Texas voting laws and that any UN observer who comes within 100 feet of any polling location will be arrested.
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