The Democrats' War on Poll Watchers
Voter intimidation was so 2008. This year, the Democrats are trying out a new thuggish tactic: poll watcher intimidation. J. Christian Adams, the former DOJ official who accused the department of racial bias in its handling of the New Black Panther Party imbroglio in 2008, explains:
[I]n Houston, poll watchers for a group dedicated to election integrity called ‘True the Vote’ are being harassed because of what they are seeing inside the polls. And it might come as a surprise who is doing the harassing.
Not only are street operatives harassing True the Vote poll watchers, but Representative Shelia Jackson Lee and her confederates are urging law enforcement personnel to crack down – but on the poll watchers!
Lee’s thug tactics are doomed to backfire. The notion of connected elected officials prodding law enforcers to threaten law abiding citizens is an affront to decency. It is the sort of behavior which citizens around the country, in places like Wheeling, Allentown and Highland Park find particularly outrageous.
True the Vote is a group of citizen volunteers, often old ladies or stay at home moms. I should disclose they are also a client of mine. They are dedicated to exercising rights under Texas law to stand watch and record illegal activity in the polling place.
To some, this constitutes intimidation. To the rest of America, this is called public service.
They have recorded dozens and dozens of instances of voters being asked by election officials, “do you want to vote a straight party Democratic ticket?”
These old ladies have been harassed inside the polls by street ruffians as well as sharply dressed ruffian lawyers who told them, “you’ll soon learn what intimidation really means.”
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Sep '10
Re: The Democrats' War on Poll Watchers
Let's hope of the "old ladies" are taking cell phone vids.
May '10
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This is very real. I've worked polls in two states now - both in very heavily blue areas - and this is extremely common.
Sep '10
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This is such a small portion of the voter fraud going on.
Honestly, I think someone high up should make an official request to the UN for vote monitors. You know, like in third world countries. It won't happen, but maybe having the issue splayed across international papers might more people talking about it and put a scare into some of the intimidators.
May '10
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You'd almost think the Democratic Party was a gang of thugs and commissars.
Aug '10
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Almost?
Sep '10
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Its a fact of life. Democrats aren't bothered by vote fraud, because Democrats benefit from vote fraud. In Milwaukee, we're represented by our own version of Sheila Jackson Lee. Back during the 2004 election, her very own son slashed tires on Republican headquarter vans used to get out the vote. The inner city wards here are corrupt beyond belief.
Jul '10
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Voting Integrety will have to be included on the agenda of the New Republican Congress in 2011.
However I keep seeing indications from the Republican Party that any resemblence to a party with a spine is purly coincidental.
If not now, when?
It's time for the Republicans to start acting like they learned their lesson from 2006 and that they mean business and arent going to go running scared at the first hint of negative press when they try to tackle the rampant voter fraud by enforcing common sense laws regarding identification and purging registrations of the dead and those who have moved away.
The more I hear them talking the more convinced I am they are going to be 'reasonable' and that means they are going to be wimps!
Jul '10
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Nice. In 2000 and 2004 Dems were wailing about how the presence of a police car a mile from the polling place was out-and-out voter suppression, and now they're threatening to call the cops on poll watchers.