Department of Social Justice deploys poll-watching army; Update: Holder double standards…activated!; Update: Judge to DOJ: Your AZ lawsuit sucks
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Corruptocrat Attorney General Attorney General is dispatching hundreds of Department of Social Justice election observers.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
The DO(S)J won’t say why it picked certain jurisdictions and not others:
The Department of Justice has announced that it is deploying “more than 400 federal observers and department personnel to 30 jurisdictions in 18 states” from its Civil Rights Division to monitor polls on Election Day tomorrow.
It is the responsibility of state and local governments to administer elections, but the Civil Rights Division is empowered to make sure that Americans have equal access to ballots.
According to a Justice Department release, the poll monitors will, among other tasks, “gather information on whether voters are subject to different voting qualifications or procedures on the basis of race, color, or membership in a language minority group.” The Civil Rights Division has also set up a phone number and web portal to allow people to complain of voter intimidation or coercion.
Observers will be deployed in jurisdictions in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas, Florida, Hawaii, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
A representative for the Department of Justice told Hotsheet that she could not get into specifics about why certain jurisdictions were chosen.
Maybe DO(S)J is teaming up with the New Black Panther Party to help police citizen watchdogs.
Houston NBPP thug Quannell X, featured in the news segment above, once threatened “your damn city will go up in flames” after a contentious police shooting trial; infamously invited black-on-white assaults when he said “If you feel that you just got to mug somebody because of your hurt and your pain, go to River Oaks and mug you some good white folks;” and incited violence at another protest here:
Bring your cameras. It’s not just your right. It’s your responsibility.
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Update: Look at this — corruptocrat AG Eric Holder’s double standards already at work, via J. Christian Adams at Election Law Center:
Election Law Center has obtained the flyer for the Corrine Brown Get Out the Vote free meal. As the flyer above states, “the first 350 to vote at the library will receive a complimentary coupon for lunch at Mama Nem’s Soul Food Restaurant.” This says the free meal is only available to those who vote.
We previously asked whether the Justice Department will be sending a letter like it sent to the WWE for having a tshirt giveaway, regardless of whether or not the person voted, on a first come first served basis.
Update: So, will the DOJ be sending a warning letter to the SEIU for its pizza-and-drinks giveaway in Arizona? Hmmm???
Update: On the Road With the King Street Patriots of Houston, Texas
Follow Anita MonCrief’s team of citizen watch dogs on the ground at Emerging Corruption.
Update: On a related note, a federal judge administers a refreshing dose of reality in the Arizona immigration lawsuit case. Via WaPo:
A federal appellate judge expressed deep skepticism Monday about a Justice Department lawsuit challenging Arizona’s new immigration law, leaving uncertain the Obama administration’s chances of stopping the law from taking effect.
Judge John T. Noonan Jr. grilled administration lawyers at a hearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. He took aim at the core of the Justice Department’s argument: that the Arizona statute is “preempted” by federal law and is especially troublesome because it requires mandatory immigration status checks in certain circumstances.
“I’ve read your brief, I’ve read the District Court opinion, I’ve heard your interchange with my two colleagues, and I don’t understand your argument,” Noonan told deputy solicitor general Edwin S. Kneedler. “We are dependent as a court on counsel being responsive. . . . You keep saying the problem is that a state officer is told to do something. That’s not a matter of preemption. . . . I would think the proper thing to do is to concede that this is a point where you don’t have an argument.”
Flashback: DOJ vs. Arizona: The battle over preemption; Updated with complaint link
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Who is going to watch the poll watchers?
Bring your billy clubs just in case.
Regardless, we surround them, just add more tea party poll watchers.
We are to be civil-not interact and refer all questions to somebody else. Chances are they will not be at my polling station but if they do I shall act as Lady Linda, Coordinator of All That Is Election, instructs.
Hawaii? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over?
Did Corruptocrat Attorney General Eric Holder instruct the US Marshals Service to deputize the Black Panthers to be poll watchers?
You.
You have as much right as they do. Inquire with an election inspector if you can be an observer. If circumstances and space permit, they should allow it. Look online for the rules in your state.
Absolutely.
But don’t take photos or video inside the polling place without authorization or unless the circumstances become extreme, or you may likely face charges.
Look up your state’s election statutes to know what you can and cannot do.
Reading between the lines, based on past elections….
Based on recent elections, the DOJ must ensure that white people with cameras do not harass, nor harangue members of the NBPP…oh, and don’t falsely accuse them of voter intimidation, while catching them on video (like what happened in Philly in 2008.) Can’t have that again!
On November 1st, 2010 at 7:05 pm, CO2 Producer said:
If the ORP doesn’t need me to drive people to the polls, I will.
Are they going to bring their iota detectors? We crackers tend to leave trails.
With people like Quanell X and CongressWOMAAAN Sheila Jackson-Lee watching the watchers, why do we need watchers from the Department of Just Us?
I hate every iota of a crackah!
The automatic assumption of most people is that the observers won’t be partisan.
Where’s Jimma Carter when you need him?
I’m reminded of a scene from Enemy of the State.
Congressman Sam Albert: [on TV] We knew that we had to monitor our enemies. We’ve also come to realise that we need to monitor the people who are monitoring them…
Carla Dean: Well, who’s gonna monitor the monitors of the monitors?
My automatic assumption was the observers would be partisan.
This is Eric Holder we are talking about. He doesn’t care about fair elections. He cares about electing black
peopledemocrats.I know that Seattle is getting one of these “observers” seeing that King County (Seattle) is known for voter fraud. I would almost be willing to bet that these “observers” are being sent to large blue cities so that the DOJ can claim that there is no voter fraud when they throw the election.
Poll-watching would’ve been the perfect job for that internal security force Obama proposed -the one that was supposed to be at least as big as the US military and as well armed.
Wow.
jrgdds: Cool. I probably will, too. And so should anyone else if they have time. I commented on this and on a couple of other aspects about Election Day in the open thread from earlier. I now pretentiously link to that most unnecessary advice here.
Hahaha – the party bringing you the two white men running for Governor and Lt Governor think the party with the two minorities (one a woman) are racists!
Idiots.
One of the myriad of things which must be done when taking back Congress and the presidency is to demand prosecution for voter fraud, including corruption in the Holder social justice department. Payback is in order. No forgive and forget. This election and those which come after must be to exact prison time on these types. Absolutely no allowing these types any position of authority, power, or views from other than a prison cell.
Good jobs at good wages!
Dalton: All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the voting booth unless it’s absolutely necessary. And three, be nice.
Dalton: People who really want to have a good time voting won’t come to a slaughterhouse. And we’ve got entirely too many troublemakers here. Too many 40-year-old adolescents, felons, power drinkers and trustees of modern chemistry.
Dalton: If somebody gets in your face and calls you a @#$%sucker, I want you to be nice. Ask him to walk. Be nice. If he won’t walk, walk him. But be nice. If you can’t walk him, one of the others will help you, and you’ll both be nice. I want you to remember that it’s a job. It’s nothing personal.
Dalton: I want you to be nice until it’s time to not be nice.
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He can find 40 poll watchers at the drop of a hat but can’t find anyone to go watch the border?
I can help it, I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve.
400, damn
PIMF
T’was the night before elections
And all through the town
Tempers were flaring
Emotions all up and down
I, in my bathrobe
With a pup on my lap
Had cut off the TV
tired of political crap
When all of a sudden
There arose such a noise
I peered out my window
Saw Obama and his boys
They had come for my wallet
They wanted my pay
To give to the others
Who had not worked a day!
He snatched up my money
And quick as a wink
Jumped back on his bandwagon
My money in hand
He then rallied his henchmen
Who were pulling his cart
I could tell they were out
To tear my country apart!
‘On Fannie, on Freddie,
On Biden and Ayers!
On Acorn, On Pelosi’
He screamed at the pairs!
They took off for his cause
And as they flew out of sight
I heard him laugh at the nation
Who wouldn’t stand up and fight!
So I leave you to think
On this one final note
IF YOU DON’T WANT SOCIALISM
GET OUT AND VOTE !!!!
GOD BLESS AMERICA, OUR ONLY HOPE!
Make it happen!
Maybe just to make sure access to certain records stay in the right hands?
I, too, feel like a kid on Christmas Eve. Hope no shenanigans occur at my polling place here in Los Angeles, but am charging up my camera tonight … just in case. Bring your cameras!
The Department of JustUs needs to ensure we have the same kind of free and fair elections that Jimmy Carter has observed and admired in Venezuela/sarc
Seriously, that’s where we’re headed if we don’t really drain the swamp of the District of Corruption.
Yes, please. (Is that you, Keli?)
I live in a rural township, but I will definitely have a digi camera in my car. You can’t be too sure.
Not really DOJ personnel; local subcontractors from ACORN and SEIU.
No voting booths here in Oregon. I would like to see the AG go get the military ballots.
Interesting they can send over paid buffoons to make sure certain ethnic groups have adequate access to the polls in some places, yet in Illinois where they should have been crawling up the azz of many election officials over military absentee ballots….not much effort.
I have been thoroughly disgusted with politicians of both parties since the 2000 election in not guaranteeing the ability to vote for those wearing our uniform.
Will these ‘poll watchers’ be equipped with billyclubs?
With the known voter intimitation by the New Black Panther Party and the do-nothing attitude of the current DoJ under the Obama regime I hope plenty of conservatives use video cameras, camera phones, and other recording devices to document any and all shenanigans at polling places across the country. With conservatives taking over the House such documentation should spur House investigations.
Just out of curiosity, I wonder who Aunt Zuni is voting for?
Did she recieve her Absentee Ballot?
I will wager she voted, maybe even twice.
Never bring a billy club to a gunfight.
Interesting. Here’s an AP article coming to pretty much the opposite conclusion.
Two points to ponder today, as I get ready to go to vote:
1) Why didn’t Blumenthal (D-Liar) quit or get so far down in the polls when he LIED about his Service in VIET NAM? Why? Linda McMahon is fighting for her life.
and
2) How come I never got my sample ballot in the mail? How come when I called the County Clerk’s office that they were having a meltdown about my questions? and, couldn’t answer even after putting someone else on the phone.
So, good luck everyone.
Georgia? They’re coming to Georgia? Hmmm….. Maybe because we have to show picture ID?
I’m taking my camera with me this morning.
Regardless of where they are sent, the reason is to make sure illegals are able to vote.
doj on the job making sure that those that they wish to break the law can….and helping the “new panthers” scare away the “undesirable” elements….see what you get when you loose the peoples faith in government? The liberals biggest HOPE seems to be that the government will survive with more than half the population not trusting the election process?……
Add to that, ANYONE ineligible to vote, just as long as they vote Democrat.
The New Black Panthers are ominously reminiscent of the Tonton Macoutes of the Haiti regime of Francois Duvalier. Wow. These guys are unpredictable and dangerous. Be very careful people.
2012 cannot come soon enough to rid ourselves of this racially divisive, corrupt America-hating administration.
With due respect they seem like a paper tiger to me. All bluster. This isnt the late 60′s anymore. The BPP speak only to a small minority of radical fringe people. And they do not appear to want physical conflict with anybody, I believe out of fear that their “enemies” just might do something in response other than curl up into the fetal position.
Just returned from voting, only a single NRA member stumping for conservatives outside the poll, here in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Sent this message: Goodbye Rep. Glenn Nye, and tell Senator Jim Webb he’s next in two years.
Intimidation!!! Must be reported immediately!!!!
No other nation on earth has such lax controls on foreign citizen participation in their elections and social services as does America. Asking people for their “papers” before giving them access is not considered unresonable anywhere in the world except in the heads of activist American judges. If reason and the rule of law prevails, I believe the DOJ suit fades away. Anyway the Dems have no political capital or energy to press it after today.
Apparently, the “Justice” Department did have to spend a lot of time. To no apparent effect, given this 11/1/10 decision.
Wouldn’t new citizens be proud of the fact that they are now citizens? The ones I know are, and wouldn’t have a problem proving it.
Root out and kick out illegals, and the problem is solved. And I don’t believe there is any restriction about them taking their “anchor babies” with them.
Oh wait, that’s what the AZ legislation was about…
No BPA members hanging around my precinct today!
Lines were relatively short this morning even though they had only 3 electronic voting machines available instead of the normal 5 or 6. And the scanner for paper ballots was out of service.
They had more electronic voting machines at the GOP Primary earlier this year! Of course, they only had two years to get ready for today.
It just goes to show that government does nothing well…
The next violent revolution may start on Nov 3 2012
Ha! That’s pretty raaacist. Remember this scandal at the NBC cafeteria? And this?
Looking at both Michelle’s cite and yours, I’d say the court’s moving in the direction of striking down the requirement to carry documentation (presumably on the grounds that federal law already takes care of that), but upholding the law’s requirement that state LEO’s check the immigration status of people they arrest or detain.
I think I could live with that.
Yeah, I’ve been concerned about the possibility of widespread rioting in the cities after OweBowMao gets what’s coming.