Posted on 12/06/2011 4:15:38 PM PST by jazusamo
The NAACP is calling on the United Nations to intervene as it claims state governments are colluding to "block the vote" for minority communities ahead of the 2012 election -- a charge those governments vehemently deny.
The nation's biggest civil rights organization this week released a report that claimed a raft of new voting laws at the state level would disenfranchise minority voters. The report said 14 states passed 25 measures "designed to restrict or limit the ballot access of voters of color."
The report catalogued several categories of laws that have been passed largely by Republican-dominated legislatures and which Democrats have decried in recent months as tools of voter suppression. The new laws include requirements to present photo ID at the polls, voting restrictions on felons and limitations on registration and early voting periods.
Supporters of the laws describe them as common-sense measures meant to ensure the integrity of elections. In Tennessee, which is implementing a new photo ID law, elections coordinator Mark Goins dismissed the criticism and questioned why the NAACP would flag the United Nations over its concerns, calling that effort "a bit extreme."
"I don't know what the benefit of going to the U.N. would be," he said. "I can't imagine any authority whatsoever that they would have here in Tennessee."
But the NAACP described the new measures as part of a "concerted" effort to drive down minority turnout and is planning a multi-stage campaign to attract international attention.
To start, the group is planning a "Stand 4 Freedom" rally this Saturday across from the U.N. headquarters. Supporters are being asked to sign an online pledge which, among other demands, calls on the United Nations to "investigate and condemn voter suppression tactics in the United States."
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Organizations with anti American values must be neutered
Voters of what color? Green? Purple?
Welcome to Obama’s America
I guess they’re complaining that radicals are trying to intimidate people away from the polls and the government won’t do anything about it.
This is bordering on Treason! Goes to show you how easy it is for them to turn their backs on their own country.
The United Nations has no authority whatsoever over the United States!
The Constitution of the United States is the Supreme Law of the Land!
The NAACP needs the UN to fight their battles?
What a worthless, overrated, yet praised, misdirected pile of excrement organization the NAACP is to have to depend upon a worthless, overrated, yet praised, misdirected pile of excrement organization, the UN!
Those issues for the ineligible voters are that they want to vote though they're ineligible and they want to vote more than once.
“designed to restrict or limit the ballot access of voters of color.”
Translation: NAACP is not pleased that their usual voting fraud technique, having certain ‘people of color’ cast more then one vote, has been exposed.
Appropriate; the UN has the gravitas of the NAACP.
Seems to be an issue with hyphenated Americans.
The nation's biggest civil rights organization this week released a report that claimed a raft of new voting laws at the state level would disenfranchise minority voters. The report said 14 states passed 25 measures "designed to restrict or limit the ballot access of voters of color."
<snip>The new laws include requirements to present photo ID at the polls...
How does requiring everyone to produce a photo ID either ""block the vote" for minority communities", "disenfranchise minority voters", or "restrict or limit the ballot access of voters of color"? It doesn't.
It would seem that the 97% voter turnout of black Chicagoans is suppressed by mysterious repubicans (from outer space). Everyone knows that the only Republicans in Illinois work for the Democratic machine.
The Constitution of the United States is the Supreme Law of the Land!
Amen to you both, dead on the money!
~ Larry Elder, "The Ten Thigns You Can't Say In America"
“Seems to be an issue with hyphenated Americans.”
It’s not an issue for me and I’m a Gun-Toting American.
I don’t think it will be long before the NAACP starts demanding “sovereign nation” status for their lowlife group of freeloaders.
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