All I have to say is....
DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS!
Article follows here:
Texas authorities have threatened to arrest international election
observers, prompting a furious response from the Organization for
Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
“The threat of
criminal sanctions against [international] observers is unacceptable,”
Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic
Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), said in a
statement. “The United States, like all countries in the OSCE, has an obligation to invite ODIHR observers to observe its elections.”
Lawmakers from the group of 56 European and Central Asian nations have
been observing U.S. elections since 2002, without incident. Their
presence has become a flashpoint this year, however, as Republicans
accuse Democrats of voter fraud while Democrats counter that
GOP-inspired voter ID laws aim to disenfranchise minority voters.Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott further fueled the controversy on Tuesday when he sent a
letter
to the OSCE warning the organization that its representatives “are not
authorized by Texas law to enter a polling place” and that it “may be a
criminal offense for OSCE’s representatives to maintain a presence
within 100 feet of a polling place's entrance.”
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The U.S. has an obligation?? Sure, because there have always been those blue-helmeted "observers" outside our polling places.
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Yep, Texas don't play that game... :-)
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