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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.”
Originally posted by JiggyPotamus
I don't know if this is the correct solution, but the problem cited in that article DOES exist. Remember the scandal involving the voting machines and invalid votes in poor communities during the Bush election? I am sure this happened during the Obama election as well.
The UN is supposed to be a neutral party, but I am not sure if their intervention would be the correct thing to do, or even if they could ensure fairness.
Originally posted by getreadyalready
reply to post by Daedal
Florida was one of the culprits of this, because we made new laws actually requiring people to be registered ahead of time and only giving them 2 weeks to make it to the polls.
The nerve!
In 2008, there was definitely voter fraud, there were busses picking people up and registering them and letting them vote the same day, never to be seen or heard from again! Homeless? How about a free meal and a ride and all you have to do is sign this card and check this box at the voter booth.
So, after that fiasco, the law was changed to require folks to update their voter registration at some decent interval ahead of the elections. Also, to reduce costs, the time available for early polling was reduced to 2 weeks.
So, if requiring people to register ahead of time, and arrange to make it to the polls within a 2 week period is more restrictive to minorities, then what does that say about minorities? If someone can't manage to register ahead of time, and plan to get to the polls in a 2 week time period, then they really don't need to be voting anyway.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by Daedal
Eh.. I don't know. I kinda want a third party to make sure that there isn't vote fraud.
Maybe not the UN, but it couldn't hurt.
Copies of the report will be sent to the federal and state agencies that monitor, administer and enforce voting rights, including the US Department of Justice, the Federal Elections Commission, and the Election Assistance Commission, as well as Secretaries of State and Attorneys General in all 50 states. In addition, the report will be delivered to the appropriate committees of jurisdiction in the House and Senate, and entities within the United Nations.
The UN monitors elections in all member countries so if someone can point out potential election/voter issues then the UN should know about it. And for the record.... no the US shouldn't be any different. After all, most of us here believe US elections have been tampered with for a long time now.
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 new laws include requirements to present photo ID at the polls, voting restrictions on felons and limitations on registration and early voting periods.
Oh I get it now. The NAACP screams voter suppression which causes Obama’s Injustice Dept to summarily declare the election results null & void, which causes blacka to come out of the woodwork and start rioting and burning down cities which, in turn, gives Obama a reason to declare martial law and suspend the constitution until law & order can be restored! Got it…
We don't need foreign involvement in our internal process.