Donald Trump's Poll-Watching Talk Spurs Call for International Monitors of U.S. Election
Source: NBC News
In a letter sent Saturday, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights asked the Warsaw, Poland-based Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to "greatly expand" its U.S. election monitoring program.
"The unprecedented weakening of the Voting Rights Act has led to a tidal wave of voter discrimination efforts nationwide and has required the United States to drastically scale back its own election monitoring program," wrote Wade Henderson and Nancy Zirkin, president and vice president respectively of the Washington, D.C.-based Leadership Conference.
"In addition, a leading presidential candidate who has made the demonization of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities a hallmark of his campaign has recently urged supporters to challenge voters at polling sites nationwide.
"An OSCE spokesman declined Monday to comment on the letter, saying the organization planned to respond directly to the Leadership Conference on Tuesday.
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This is another consequence of the SC decision. I sure hope we get the International monitors on board in November.
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In one potential sign of trouble to come, a Florida-based Trump backer tweeted Friday: "We gonna be watch'n fer shenanigans...& haul ya away," above a photograph of a pickup truck with a cage in the truck bed.
Those concerns have been heightened by last month's announcement by the U.S. Justice Department that it will reduce the number of its own election observers deployed to polling places this fall.
The DOJ said the pull-back was required by the Supreme Court's 2013 ruling in Shelby County v. Holder, which significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act, though some voting rights advocates have called that an unnecessarily conservative reading of the ruling. .............
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