Assistant County Attorney Doug Ray disputed that account. "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.Some NAACP representatives at the polling place were being disruptive, Ray said, voicing their displeasure with the long waiting times for disabled voters and arranging for some of these voters to be moved to the front of the line.
County Clerk Stan Stanart said his understanding was that the only potential legal violations Friday would have been line-jumping or the presence of people inside the polling place who were not poll workers, poll watchers or voters.
What's this "we"? Was Ray there as a poll watcher or was he actually an official poll worker (as a private citizen on his own time)?
I would submit that if the situation did not change -- ie, that these law-breaking NAACP members were not escorted immediately from the premises -- that a) nothing was done about the situation and b) they were indeed taking control of the place.
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.