Posted on 11/04/2012 6:29:38 PM PST by markomalley
The poll watcher who said individuals in NAACP T-shirts took over a Houston polling site told TheBlaze Sunday that the “ringleader” of the group was also accused of touching an electronic voting machine that a voter was using.
Eve Rockford said the woman in the NAACP attire first screamed at the poll supervisor and demanded that a clerk be removed during the Friday incident.
“She starts screaming at [poll supervisor Rose Cochran] and she says ‘get this clerk out of here, get him out of here I’ve had enough of him,” Rockford, 51, told TheBlaze. “He starts calmly, using his voice, ‘she’s touching the machines, she’s touching the machines, she’s not acting appropriately, she’s touching the machines.’”
Rockford said Cochran did nothing about the outburst and that another poll watcher came up and asked the woman for her name. The woman demanded to know the poll watcher’s name instead and after a few moments left the voting machine area and went and sat down.
Rockford said the woman had been escorting voters up to the machines to vote, but said she didn’t actually see herself whether the woman had touched a machine.
“It was like she was moving these people to the machines, you have to go up and put your finger on it and dial the machine,” Rockford said. “[The clerk] was trying to say she was getting too close to the machine…that she was actually helping them cast their ballot.”
A representative from the NAACP’s Houston branch could not be reached for comment Sunday.
As TheBlaze previously reported, Rockford said the three people wearing NAACP attire showed up at the polling site and were handing out water to people in line, then “stirred up the crowd” and mentioned flying people out to Ohio to promote President Barack Obama.
“The NAACP basically ran this poll location and the judges did nothing about it,” Rockford said in her report of the incident.
Assistant Harris County Attorney Douglas Ray told the Houston Chronicle that Rockford’s account was wrong.
“It wasn’t like they were taking control of the place. It wasn’t like we did nothing about it. That’s just not true at all,” Ray said.
Rockford was volunteering as a poll watcher on behalf of judicial candidate Don Self but was trained by True the Vote, a nonpartisan election integrity group. True the Vote spokesman Logan Churchwell told TheBlaze that poll watchers like Rockford are crucial in exposing incidents of potential fraud.
“None of this would have made news of any kind had we not had poll watchers in the first place,” Churchwell said. “This is exactly what they’re there for.”
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Persons are not allowed to use a wireless communications device within 100-feet of the voting stations. Tex. Elec. Code Ann. § 61.014(a) (Vernon 2011). Additionally, persons are not allowed to use a mechanical or electronic device to record sound or images within 100-feet of the voting stations. Id. § 61.014(b). Said devices include but are not limited to cell phones, digital phones, cameras, phone cameras and sound recorders.
I suspect we will see this crap at many polls tomorrow, perhaps worse. The Attorney General of the Unitd States has signaled very clearly that intimidation at the polls by non whites is will be tolerated, even welcomed.
Controversy At Houston Election Polling Station
http://blog.chron.com/texassparkle/2012/11/controversy-at-houston-election-polling-station/
blog by Kathleen McKinley
The Houston Chronicle stepped into the fray by quoting a local official, helping to frame the NAACP’s violations as “an effort to help disabled people.”Even more alarming was the Houston Chronicle’s Mike Morris using a local official’s defense of the NAACP’s violations as a first person/eye witness account — even though the quoted official appeared not to witness the event.
The official, Assistant Harris County Attorney Doug Ray, stated to the paper:
“What the NAACP people were doing was trying to identify people with disabilities and move them to the front of line so they could vote right away out of turn. Our folks were basically saying, ‘We’re not working it that way.’ The activists became very confrontational. We had to calm them down and explain how the thing was supposed to work.”
But then Morris went on to write:
“Ray said he witnessed no electioneering at the Sunnyside polling place but said if people at other sites were advocating for candidates they should have been instructed to stop.”Of course Ray didn’t witness any such thing; he wasn’t there. Eyewitnesses say they never saw Ray present and the polling station simply wasn’t set up in a way where he could’ve been missed. Of course, it is possible Ray showed up on the scene after the conflict occurred. Even so, the Houston Chronicle described him as an eyewitness giving the impression he actually was there and giving an eye-witness account.
This isn’t the first time the Houston Chronicle was caught using deception in its war against True the Vote and its founder, Catherine Engelbrecht. The fledgling paper has engaged in vote fraud denial previously and even went as far as falsely claiming that Catherine Engelbrecht was under a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation.
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I am still wondering (just curious about this whole "in our faces" incident; where else is this happening as well?) why Assistant Harris County Attorney Doug Ray was interviewed (was it in some official government capacity?), why he made the comments he did (aside from him being a dim party hack), and who the "WE" is.
One thing we can be sure of is that the monkeys will be in full monkey business mode tomorrow.
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