Posted on 10/22/2012 4:50:50 AM PDT by YourAdHere
Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings has demanded that a group planning to challenge voter access to the polls on Election Day provide him with details of its planned operations.
Cummings targeted the organization True the Vote, saying the group planned to deploy hundreds of thousands of personnel across the country on Election Day to challenge the status of citizens who they believe may be ineligible to vote.
“There have been reports from multiple states during the past two years that your organization is targeting predominantly minority communities and coordinating with the Republican Party in an attempt to intimidate legitimate voters,” Cummings wrote in his letter to Catherine Engelbrecht, True the Vote’s president and founder.
Cummings first contacted the group in early October seeking specifics of its plans. In his most recent letter, he set a deadline of Oct. 31 for the group to turn over its plans.
The congressman pointed to a recent report documenting True the Vote’s plans to deploy personnel to predominantly African-American and Hispanic communities in North Carolina. Following the report’s release, Cummings said True the Vote shut down access to its Web site which detailed where its workers will be located on Election Day.
Cummings also said the group had been connected to voter suppression allegations in Texas in 2010. According to Cummings, officials in Harris County, Texas told his staff that “King Street Patriots and True the Vote volunteers were not fully exonerated for acts of intimidation while serving as poll watchers in 2010,” saying that True the Vote members were the subject of complaints from voters who said the members stood too close while the citizens voted.
Cumming said “mounting evidence” shows the group is coordinating with Republican political interests to further that party’s agenda.
“If you are truly committed to transparency in our nation’s voting process—and if you continue to deny that your organization is challenging thousands of legitimate voters across the country for partisan political purposes—then you should have no reason to withhold documents from Congress about your activities,” Cummings wrote in the letter.
Are you sure this isn’t from The Onion?
Elijah Cummings , another racist CBC member that purports that some organisation wants to do what the Black Panthers have already done. I don’t hear him screaming for their arrest. I don’t hear him crying about the vast amounts of money dumped into politics by the SEIU.
Elijah is another black with his feet in the Concrete of a black district that keeps returning him merely on the basis of his skin color.
His district covers just over half of Baltimore City, most of the majority African American sections of Baltimore County, and the majority of Howard County, Maryland.
You couldn’t pry him out of there with a crowbar.
My mistake. Rep Cummings is from MD, not GA.
Could someone please put a barf-alert into the header/title?
Ensuring that only legal voters can vote isn’t intimidation. Stopping people from voting illegally may be, but there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it.
More importantly, why have we not heard about this? I’d volunteer.
This is precisely what we need.......I would volunteer.
I hope they challenge me. I hope they challenge every potential voter in the country. It would be nigh impossible to pull off and at the same time impossible to deny.
They squawk because, in an effort to ensure no fraud is committed, WE'VE started insisting on voter ID's.
Yet what did they REQIRE in order for someone to attend the circus they called a 'convention'?
That's right, boys and girls.......an I.D.!
They're hypocrites, one and all.
Dear Elijah,
You may want to protect VOTE FRAUD, but we intend to PREVENT IT!
Watch and see.
You have no authority to demand anything from us.
Transference.
Just accusing conservatives of what the libtards are or are planning to do. Them and that UN team.
“You couldn’t pry him out of there with a crowbar.”
This is a racist comment. Crows are black.
“You couldn’t pry him out of there with a crowbar.”
This is a racist comment. Crows are black.
Hmmm...the aftershocks from the Black Panther intimidation of voters in 2008 were long & loud. Do you suppose the WH has already warned the NBP crowd to cool their jets until after Election Day?
Anyway, if Elijah Cummings didn’t exist, The Onion would have to invent him. Of course, who am I to complain, my “rep” is the execrable, buffoonish, and equally undiselectable James Clyburn, D-SC.
I just knew someone would pick up on that LOL.
I thought about it right after I hit the “post” button.
LOL So are the “Ravens” Baltimores football team.
Never figured how they got away with that.
Rep. Cummings, I have set a deadline of Oct. 31 for you to
disclose the origin of all funds in any onshore, and offshore account, that you are connected with.
This POS needs to be tried for treason for his actions during the F&F and Libya hearings. He is clearly working FOR our Countries declared enemies.
Now that would be an interesting read...
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