A story on The Hill.com says the observers will be from Germany, France, Serbia, Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

So are the left wing groups who want these observers saying we should have voter ID requirements like Germany and France already do?

Or are they saying that Serbia, Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan are models of democracy that the US should emulate?

Secession isn’t an option, and was decided in the case of Lincoln v. Davis, with U.S. Grant writing the opinion of the court.

But it’s not necessary anyway. Federalism just needs states willing to fight back. I wish Texas hadn’t backed down on the TSA.

These monitors will intrude upon the integrity of US elections and anywhere an AG can boot them should bar them. Keep them away from polling places. They are up to no good and have no business at US polling places meddlin in our internal affairs. Better safe than sorry. Good work, Texas.
The Democratic party’s civil rights groups invited the UN affiliated monitors to observe Republicans for ‘minority vote supression’ not voter fraud. Fraud is often the case in election monitoring worldwide. Fraud is usually the main reason monitors are needed in Afghanistan or Iran or Nigeria, for example. This US request is partisan with political not civic motives.
States regulate elections in accord with Voter Rights Act 1965 based on 14th amendment. The act was carefully designed to allow states legislatures to regulate and designate authority to counties. No state has to accept these DNC fronts to intimidate the general practice of voting in the states.
Their invite is an effort to cast doubt on the integrity of those running elections as well as to intimidate the smooth runing of elections by imposing an intrusive foreign force whose mind is made up in favor of DNC cvil rights groups. Minority vote supression will be monitored by DOJ and some states. No need for more monitors.
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If the US starts a steep decline it may be Texas that becomes the home of liberty in North America. A combination of principle and backbone that can’t be stopped.

Anyway, secession threadjack over. Period.

IMO Obama and his DOJ abuse the ‘preclearance’ mandate and will continue that abuse of power if Obama wins 2012. Obama will treat the south especailly like an occupied state and deprive those state of as much self government as possible.
Preclearance means states in old confederacy and those with a history depriving originally freedmen and descendents of slaves after civil war the vote need clear any change in election law with US DeptOfJustice DOJ. For 100 years blacks were kept from voting, but since 1965 there is no problem and preclearance is pro forma until Obama. Still any change needs clearance from DOJ. Holder has used a heavy hammer with Florida, Texas,. SC maybe more.
Hence we see southern states being sued by Holder for newVoter ID laws. Holder uses preclearance and claims southern states still prohibit blacks from voting. The Supreme ct upheld an Indiana Voter ID law in 2006 or so and most assumed the voter ID was legal.
Not so under Holder

States that do not need preclearance to change election law like a Union state Wisconsin or PA have state judges declaring the Voter ID law unconstitutional. Ohio also lost an early vote law suit to Obama campaign. Ohio is now back to the voter laws it had when Democrats were in power 2008.

Democrats and courts are learning how to overturn elections and nullify voting regulation. This UN affiliated monitor is one more blow by Democrats.

We can pray that Holder’s over-reach results in the SCOTUS eliminating Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Texas case is working its way up fairly quickly.

Agreed. You can bet that Alaska would follow their lead and what can the Feds do? NOTHING! The Constitution does not forbid secession and even Jefferson stated that the oppressed should revolt. In fact, the DOI states that when necessary, we should revolt to form a better government.

Mmm. From Alaska through the Mountain states and ending in Texas. Nice.

Texas DPS has trained election monitors already assigned.
I recieved an email today from the Travis County GOP regarding training for poll watchers.
None of these Euro socialists will get far beyond airport and hotel bars or they will be behind real bars.

U S Grant as a justice? I don’t think that is right.

Might want to work a bit harder on understanding what he actually meant.

From http://yellowhammerpolitics.com/blog/hubbard-moves-to-block-united-nations-poll-watchers-from-operating-in-alabama/

Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard (Alabama) said he will support legislation in
the next session requiring all poll watchers in Alabama to hold U.S.
citizenship.

“The United States is the worldwide beacon of free elections and the
Republican form of government, so having an international squad from the
United Nations playing referee in our elections is insulting and
absurd,” Hubbard said. “We’ve been holding elections in the U.S. for
the past 223 years without the United Nations playing a role or
enforcing the rules, and we certainly don’t want or need them now.”

“If you can’t participate in an election in the United States, and if
you can’t cast a vote in the United States, you really have no business
serving as a poll watcher in an election being held in the United
States,” Hubbard said. “It’s bad enough that Alabama remains trapped
under the provisions of the Voting Rights Act, so we certainly don’t
need anyone from the United Nations coming into our state and meddling
in our elections, as well.”

Actually, Serbia has strict voter laws. They use the dye to make sure you haven’t voted already. At least they’ve got that going for them. I’m sitting here in Serbia wondering if I even want to go home…and that’s BAD.

no one is dragging you to an airplane, Scooter.

Why should Texans feel the need to post in a circumstance where they find themselves the benefactors of common sense? Bravado like what AG Abbott has shown is no surprise to us. First time I heard of this I thought, “Well, of course” and good for him.

And yet, and yet, it was the NBPP – a tool of the Left, that threatened voters during the 2008 presidential elections? The OSCE doesn’t think THEY need monitoring?
Every state should do what Texas is doing. We don’t need no stinkin’ outside interference.

OK. Lemme see if I have this straight. Our polls will be policed by foreigners and our votes will be counted in Spain. What could possibly go wrong?

My wife an I have been talking about moving from Minnesota to Texas in the event things get really ugly in America. If Texas wishes to challenge Washington, we will help them defend. We don’t want to be a part of a nation that would go to war to stop Texas from seceding. If there are people in Texas who do not want to secede, I’d be happy to consider a house swap with them. They can come to Minnesota to live in a Lib-prog state as slaves to the government, and we can go to Texas to live like the free citizens that we are.

YEP, just TRUST them we know there is no Hanky Panky going on. JERKS.

The USA is a sovereign nation – we are beyond the need for Europe’s Organization for Security & Cooperation here. Love Texas & would move there if not for the roots I’ve grown in NJ.

God Bless Texas. AG Abbott has done an excellent job in Texas.

Come on down anyway! We would open our doors to y’all and welcome our fellow conservatives! (Our summers are hot as the hub of hades but that’s only for 3 months. The rest of time-it’s heaven!)

I agree with Attorney General Abbott. And maybe he might get the Texas Rangers (not the baseball team; the REAL ones) involved with helping keep the scum out of the polling places, since this would be a state-level crime.

Upon hearing of this outrageous attempt to intrude on US elections and sovereignty by outsiders at the behest of what I can only describe as traitorous Democrats, I began sending emails, Tweets, etc. to Greg Abbott and other officials of the State of Texas, as I’m sure many other Texans did. I also urged those in other states to follow suit with their own state officials.

True to form, within 48 hours, our Attorney General answered the call by sending a very clear and stern warning to the OSCE.

Please note in this link http://www.osce.org/odihr/95107 to the OSCE’s press release titled /ODIHR opens mission to observe general elections in United States, there is a statement that reads:

“The limited election observation mission’s deployment follows an invitation from the authorities of the United States.”

Oh, really? I believe it behooves us to determine EXACTLY who those “authorities” might be and furthermore to educate those “authorities” in regard to our election laws, a service Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott so eloquently provided the OSCE itself. Want a clue? https://www.oag.state.tx.us/newspubs/releases/2012/102312abbot_letter.pdf Read the full text of Abbott’s letter!

It would seem that those “authorities of the United States” that approached this illustrious global ‘security’ organization, are quite ignorant of election laws in their own country – at least to the extent that as Abbott clarified, “Elections and election observation are regulated by state law. The Texas Election Code governs anyone who participates in Texas elections—including representatives of the OSCE. The OSCE’s representatives are not authorized by Texas law to enter a polling place.”

Plainly there was a whole lotta ignorance going on between the Democrats and the OSCE that stated their… “Observers will assess these elections for compliance with international obligations and standards for democratic elections, including the commitments agreed to by all the OSCE participating States, and with national legislation.”

Well, good luck and welcome to Texas, ya’ll. We’ll be sure to give you the welcome you deserve. And it would stand you in good stead to keep in mind that Texans don’t like interlopers as demonstrated by the long history of Greg Abbott, Governor Rick Perry and former Solicitor General of the State of Texas, Ted Cruz (currently running for US Senate) standing up to the United Nations, International “Court of Justice”, Mexican Government, the Bush Administration and more recently the Obama Administration – and WINNING. And lest you think the taunt AG Abbott issued on Twitter was just a few words, they date back to 1835 and the Texas and the Battle of Gonzales, so when a Texan says, “Come and take it!” you’d best heed that warning!

Secession is always an option when you are a Texan!

Texan is more than where you reside… it is frame of mind. Keep spreading that Texas spirit!

Democrats also want to win by hook or by crook. if they can not win nobody will, is their line. If they lose fair and square they want a foreign monitor to say they were vicitms and really won.

At least someone has the balls to stand up and support the law. Hey Obama, you need to study this situtation to help you understand how the rule of law works.

Hi Neil, just a FYI on the Texas vs. TSA. The TSA had threatened to stop all flights to/from US to TX. With a Democrat Senate and Obama, TX didn’t have many short-term options. It was also the end of the TX legislative session (the TX legislature, per our constitution, only meet for 6 months every 2 years), so a special session would probably be required to change the law.

I hope the AG gets a chance to arrest some of the OSCE observers. We need more push-back with Obama and his friends.

The TSA only “won” the battle on the airports vs. TX-the “war” with the TSA will continue so the airports can eject the TSA in the future(hopefully).

PS: The TSA, with Rep Sheila Jackson Lee’s encouragement, did searches and questioning of folks just riding Houston city buses, including “where are you going” and “why” type questions–no probable cause, warrants, or disruptive behavior–just unconstitutional harassment. There was such an uproar, I think the TSA only tried it once.

But what does the dye to prove you are eligible to vote in the first place?

Fix your link to The Hill. It goes to hill.com

Actually numnuts, I can guarantee I have been a Texan a long time, much longer than you. While I do not reside there now, I still own a ranch in Boyd, pay state taxes there, have an office there, and spend as much time there as I do in SC.

Second, it is always the “so called intellectuals and lard butts” who blab on about something so stupid as secession since it is not them who would bleed.

Third, it is not a fact, it is stupidity. Already explained it to you as have others, not our fault you are too stupid to understand. And if you had one bit of sense, you would understand just how dangerous secession is, the many downsides to secession, and the very low probability it would have any success other than in seriously lowering the population of the states inhabitants via death.

Now run along bub, your mom needs the computer and you need to clean the basement so you can have a place to sleep.

The US was founded for the purpose of self government. A republic can run its own elections by its very defintion of self regulation and government. But a new type of view has emerged on the world stage that makes global intervention acceptable to some.
Only foreigners or some outsider can be fair and balanced in monitoring elections since natives are too corrupt. That stinks and only US citizens should be poll watchers. Anyone poll watching for a foreign outfit has an independent agenda. I would not want those poll watchers watching my polls.

What a kind welcoming thing to say–pefect state for conservatives! Abbott and Perry well, my admiration grows by the moment. I found i admired Gv Perry in primary when he got into foreign policy and said all foreign aid would start at zero and have to be explained and that he would exit UN. His skepticism about one world UN impressed me.

Here is one Texan who is proud of our Gov. and our Atty Gen. the word is: Don’t mess with Texas.

Nice backtrack attempt there bub. Might want to go up and edit or delete your comment if you are going to take this new approach.

And I have that distinction there Jimbo, by a few years.

I enjoy a good pissing contest,but I won’t accommodate you.
Goodbye

Let’s hope Congress will pass a national voter ID law for federal elections, since some states, i.e. CA, would never do it.