United Nations-affiliated election monitors from Europe and central Asia will be at polling places around the U.S. looking for voter suppression activities by conservative groups, a concern raised by civil rights groups during a meeting this week. The intervention has drawn criticism from a prominent conservative-leaning group combating election fraud.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a United Nations partner on democratization and human rights projects, will deploy 44 observers around the county on Election Day to monitor an array of activities, including potential disputes at polling places.
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.”
The request for foreign monitoring of election sites drew a strong rebuke from Catherine Engelbrecht, founder and president of True the Vote, a conservative-leaning group seeking to crack down on election fraud.
“These activist groups sought assistance not from American sources, but from the United Nations,” she said in a statement to The Hill. “The United Nations has no jurisdiction over American elections.”
The observers, from countries such as Germany, France, Serbia, Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, will observe voting at polling places and other political activity.
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I think there is a joke in this article, but I don’t get it. We’re worried about conservatives cheating at the polls? How about all those Chicago-vote-early-and-often folks? How about those black panthers in Philadelphia in 2008? They sure guarded the polling places. Also, we seem to be asking the wolves to guard the henhouse! Maybe it takeh is a joke, but the joke’s on us, folks!!!
So is this what the UN spends its money on with our USA-provided taxpayer money??
#1, No, they’re concerned about conservatives trying to prevent cheating.
So we’re going to have the corrupt UN monitor us? Are you kidding me? And they’re going to be watching for republican shenanegins? If it were April 1st I would unserstand but it’s not. Maybe it’s just me but I think the Obama regime put them up to this because they’re scared stiff of losing the election and are ready to do anything to win.
This has nothing to do with cheating, this is all part of the “new world order” google it (“new world order”) and you’ll be surprised to find out what country we live in. The entire election is a hoax.
#5, Peddle your paranoid nonsense elsewhere. The election is real, and there is no secret cabal running the world, whether called the Illuminati or the Elders of Zion. You’re diving into a malarial swamp.
to # 6 I see that you are familiar with the new world order, so why are you denying it? it’s time for all to run away from the us, maybe to Israel, who knows?
#7, I’m denying it because it’s insanity, it’s ridiculous nonsense peddled only by paranoid lunatics. (And by the way, at the roots of their paranoia you will almost invariably find antisemitism lurking.)