Posted on 10/25/2012 1:06:53 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Texas authorities have threatened to arrest international election observers, prompting a furious response from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
“The threat of criminal sanctions against [international] observers is unacceptable,” Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), said in a statement. “The United States, like all countries in the OSCE, has an obligation to invite ODIHR observers to observe its elections.”
Lawmakers from the group of 56 European and Central Asian nations have been observing U.S. elections since 2002, without incident. Their presence has become a flashpoint this year, however, as Republicans accuse Democrats of voter fraud while Democrats counter that GOP-inspired voter ID laws aim to disenfranchise minority voters.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott further fueled the controversy on Tuesday when he sent a letter to the OSCE warning the organization that its representatives “are not authorized by Texas law to enter a polling place” and that it “may be a criminal offense for OSCE’s representatives to maintain a presence within 100 feet of a polling place's entrance.”
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who are these people? who invited them?
Texas did not do so. Obviouisly they do not know how elections work. (state vs federal)
aresting them is not only a good idea, it is REQUIRED.
On sites like Huffington Post their conversation is all about “don’t those rednecks know about diplomatic immunity????”
Well, just because you are a diplomat doesn’t give you PERMISSION to do what an ordinary US citizen cannot do.
I cannot just walk into a polling place and demand to be a poll watcher.
There are rules.
“aresting them is not only a good idea, it is REQUIRED.”
Goodness, I would escort them to the border with Mexico and turn them over to the drug lords.
And Texas, nor any other state, is under no obligation to overlook its own laws to placate these international observers.
There is an old Polish proverb I wish to offer to the ODIHR....."Tough Shitski!" "Stay out of my state and I will stay the hell out of your country. We run our state how we run our state. So don't think for one minute you can come here, flash a badge, and make us nervous. We eat breakfast 300 miles from thousands in a Mexican cartels who want to kill us. So, roll the dice and take your chances." (Adapted from Nicholson in "A Few Good Men").
Let them step one FREAKIN foot inside my designated voting booth and I’m gonna KICK some Texas BUTT!! ... chittt....this isn’t Venezuela!!
they must be some NGO recognized by the UN but not actually sent by the UN. They are nobodys.
These are the same type of buffoons who protest death penalty cases.
It is no different than sending the east german kazoo band to “officially” observe an election.
People forget that these united states are sovereign and limited beyond that only by the US constitution. So the US government can tell the UN that they are happy to allow them into the country, but each state has the authority to control their activity as a foreign authority.
I.E. the state has ultimate sovereignty over this matter.
Come on down, OSCE. Try to “observe”. Find out what happens next.
Make our day.
It’s about time someone (ANYONE) pushes back.
“Lawmakers from the group of 56 European and Central Asian nations have been observing U.S. elections since 2002,”
Thats because none of us knew about it til now. I never heard anything about it until this week.
First they stereotype all Texans with calling them rednecks and then go on to say about diplomatic immunity, HUH these people on the left need to understand that states have laws as does the country and the law is not let others in to the voting booth nor inside a voting station.
There are laws and these people do not have diplomatic immunity as they are not diplomats etc, they break the law they get arrested.
Anyone else noticed how the left keeps making a play in TX, they know that if they can manage to get their foot in the state they can do their fraud thus ten take the state over thus they win every election
+2!
Texas bump.
I am Cali girl I even know that you don’t mess with Texas who are these UN Observers LOL!
Please step aside and let the Republic of Texas lead the way.
BS! required to invite? What kind of double-talk is that?
The United States DID not request your presence: 'A coalition of U.S. pro-democracy organizations' did. In a nutshell....DEMOCRATS
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/chrneday08/observerrequest103008pr.html
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Even if they did, US law says the States run their own election, you putrid, socialist wanker!
You are here at the request of a political party and as such you have affiliated themselves with them
You have no legal authority. You are are NO MORE THAN a political sign and must REMAIN 100FT AWAY FROM THE POLLING PLACE or you can be arrested on the warrant of the electoral judge at the polling location where the offense occurred.
That is, unless of course, you keep running your heads until the Governor just breaks out the Rangers and sends them to WATCH.....the 'watchers'.
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