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j-mac

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With a sympathetic DOJ, and people who don't know the law, it won't be Black Panthers with billy clubs this time. It'll be NAACP with bottled water.

HOUSTON, TX - Friday afternoon at an early polling place located at 6719 W. Montgomery Road in Houston, NAACP members were seen advocating for President Barack Obama according to volunteer poll watchers on location at the time.According to Eve Rockford, a poll watcher trained by voter integrity group True the Vote, three NAACP members showed up to the 139 precinct location with 50 cases of bottled water and began handing bottles out to people standing in line. While wearing NAACP labeled clothing, members were "stirring the crowd" and talking to voters about flying to Ohio to promote President Barack Obama.
After watching what was occurring, Rockford approached Polling Supervisor Rose Cochran about what she was seeing.
"I went to the polling supervisor and let her know that it was not appropriate that they were in the building handing out water. She ignored me. I repeated my statement. She told me that she would handle it. She did nothing. I then went to the assistant supervisor and he stood up, walked over to another table and then sat down. I then walked into the waiting room and they were reloading another dolly with more cases of water," Rockford said in a True the Vote incident report.

BREAKING: NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates for President Obama - Katie Pavlich
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Why can't people just let people vote?
 
j-mac said:
With a sympathetic DOJ, and people who don't know the law, it won't be Black Panthers with billy clubs this time. It'll be NAACP with bottled water.



Why can't people just let people vote?
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They brought water to those standing in line to vote and you make a claim that they are getting in the way of voters. Helluva perspective you got there.
 
I'm going to need something better than Townhall.
 
poweRob said:
They brought water to those standing in line to vote and you make a claim that they are getting in the way of voters. Helluva perspective you got there.
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If it was the Tea Party doing this? You'd be spinnin' your lil' self into the ground.
 
MaggieD said:
If it was the Tea Party doing this? You'd be spinnin' your lil' self into the ground.
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Tea Party is not nonpartisan. They are self explained politicians. Now if Churches were doing it... that'd be fine. Even though we all know where most of those are leaning politically.
 
j-mac said:
With a sympathetic DOJ, and people who don't know the law, it won't be Black Panthers with billy clubs this time. It'll be NAACP with bottled water.



Why can't people just let people vote?
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Have you actually been to polling stations in the last however many years? They're inundated with sign-wavers and last-minute campaigners. Handing out bottled water is an improvement over waving some local candidate's banner in my face, hoping that I'll vote for him as I pull into the parking lot. In fact, that's much less harassive.
 
poweRob said:
Tea Party is not nonpartisan. They are self explained politicians. Now if Churches were doing it... that'd be fine. Even though we all know where most of those are leaning politically.
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They are about as nonpartisan as the NAACP.
 
Certainly not ok. But i wont expect this at like every other voting station.
But yea, i think im gonna wait for another less blantlly biased report on this from someone named Katie Pavilich who just so happens to be be the author of 'Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up'. It does not seem like the most logical thing to do if she reported everything going on that people would tell her about the phone-calls the NAACP allegedly got from one sources. I can't trust her at her word though. She has too much to gain. It's not like people have ever manufactured a story just to get attention.

Im gonna wait for more reliable sources to come out with this one. If it did happen exactly like this then yea its ****ed up but im gonna sit on the sidelines until a more reliable source reports on this and we get the whole story instead of the "whole story" from just one guy.
 
j-mac said:
Why can't people just let people vote?
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I ask myself the same question when Republican governors refuse to extend early voting.
 
poweRob said:
They brought water to those standing in line to vote and you make a claim that they are getting in the way of voters. Helluva perspective you got there.
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Sometimes you have to read the links.

After handing out water and advocating for President Obama, the NAACP members started handpicking and moving people to the front of a long voting line inside the polling place according to the incident report. After multiple complaints from voters about the line cutting, Rockford received a phone call from downtown telling her to “stand down.”
 
samsmart said:
I ask myself the same question when Republican governors refuse to extend early voting.
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why cannot people vote on the election day or take an absentee ballot? why do we enable sloth?
 
poweRob said:
Tea Party is not nonpartisan. They are self explained politicians. Now if Churches were doing it... that'd be fine. Even though we all know where most of those are leaning politically.
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Sorry, I have to throw a BS flag on the play here....You're saying that the NAACP is nonpartisan? lol....Like a church?....lol....That is rich...But in using your analogy, if it were say an evangelical Baptist church from the deep south handing out water to voters in Maryland within the polling station while espousing why they should vote for Romney, you'd be cryin' foul quicker than snot!
 
poweRob said:
No, they are not.
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How so? The Tea Party claims to be a nonpartisan group that promotes fiscal responsibility. It's not surprise that they lean right. The NAACP is like a Democrat cheerleading organization. Remember when Obama endorsed gay marriage and just a few days later the NAACP did they same? They are both biased organizations when it comes to political parties.
 
j-mac said:
Sorry, I have to throw a BS flag on the play here....You're saying that the NAACP is nonpartisan? lol....Like a church?....lol....That is rich...But in using your analogy, if it were say an evangelical Baptist church from the deep south handing out water to voters in Maryland within the polling station while espousing why they should vote for Romney, you'd be cryin' foul quicker than snot!
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If they are nonpartisan organization and handing out water... no problem. Espousing politics while doing so... yeah... that's a problem.
 
samsmart said:
I ask myself the same question when Republican governors refuse to extend early voting.
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Hey I got it, why don't we just vote 365 per year? I'm sure nothing could go wrong with that eh?
 
Perhaps this year I should buy some chocolate ex-lax bars, change the wrappers to a hershey's wrapper, and hand those out to all the people waiving signs for the guy I am not voting for. Na, that would be wrong. But I'll revel in the idea while I am voting.
 
digsbe said:
How so? The Tea Party claims to be a nonpartisan group that promotes fiscal responsibility. It's not surprise that they lean right. The NAACP is like a Democrat cheerleading organization. Remember when Obama endorsed gay marriage and just a few days later the NAACP did they same? They are both biased organizations when it comes to political parties.
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The tea party is a political organization that fronts and funds political candidates.
 
j-mac said:
Why can't people just let people vote?
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Everyone it seems top try and influence a person's vote. But the beauty is that no matter who your boss tells you to vote for or the morons in front of the polling station you vote in private.

You can come out and tell them whatever you want as they don't have a clue if you are telling the truth. Hell yes, I voted for Dick Romney.
 
Jeezy said:
Have you actually been to polling stations in the last however many years? They're inundated with sign-wavers and last-minute campaigners. Handing out bottled water is an improvement over waving some local candidate's banner in my face, hoping that I'll vote for him as I pull into the parking lot. In fact, that's much less harassive.
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I have voted in every election local, and national since 1980. And to the best of my recollection all the signs and things you mention are outside the polling places. This report is from inside the polling place....Please read the article before commenting next time.
 
TurtleDude said:
why cannot people vote on the election day or take an absentee ballot? why do we enable sloth?
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Because Tuesday is a work day for most people, and it's not a national holiday, so most employees prefer to vote early, usually on weekend days, so they can show up at work on election day and not risk losing their jobs, especially in "right-to-work" states.

So the reason why we enable sloth is so people can keep going to work.
 
Crosscheck said:
Everyone it seems top try and influence a person's vote. But the beauty is that no matter who your boss tells you to vote for or the morons in front of the polling station you vote in private.

You can come out and tell them whatever you want as they don't have a clue if you are telling the truth. Hell yes, I voted for Dick Romney.
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True enough, but not everyone is as confident as say you or I. This is why we shouldn't let Black Panthers stand outside with billy clubs, or NAACP members hand out water, advocate, and move people up in line to influence that vote. right?
 
j-mac said:
I have voted in every election local, and national since 1980. And to the best of my recollection all the signs and things you mention are outside the polling places. This report is from inside the polling place....Please read the article before commenting next time.
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*Rolls eyes*

They were handing out water OUTSIDE of the polling place, in the line.

The people they were moving to the FRONT of the line...well, that's a different story. One that you should probably read up on yourself.

Long waits led to disturbance at polling site, official says - Houston Chronicle

An article on the website Townhall.com, linked on the widely read Drudge Report, stated that people wearing NAACP shirts "took over" the Acres Homes polling place, electioneering and voicing support for President Barack Obama while poll workers "did nothing."

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. Similar but lesser problems were seen at the West Gray and Sunnyside polling places, Ray said.

Though polls closed at 7 p.m. Friday, those in line at that hour under law must be allowed to vote. Several polling places still had lines past 10 p.m., according to the County Clerk's office.

"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," Ray said. "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."
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So there.
 
Jeezy said:
Have you actually been to polling stations in the last however many years? They're inundated with sign-wavers and last-minute campaigners. Handing out bottled water is an improvement over waving some local candidate's banner in my face, hoping that I'll vote for him as I pull into the parking lot. In fact, that's much less harassive.
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The difference is that there are laws those last minute campaigners have to be a certain number of feet away from the entrance to the polling place. Even handing out water could be illegal if you are promoting a candidate when you do it.
 
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