The Daily Caller is reporting that the UN affiliated Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Europe will deploy its representatives to states where voter ID and early voting laws became contentious issues such as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Texas and Florida. They say the observation is being set up to insure that the conservative groups who pushed these laws don't engage in any kind of suppression or intimidation on election day.
"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," the OSCE said in a statement. "The mission will analyze the legislative framework and its implementation and will follow campaign activities, the work of the election administration and relevant government bodies, including voter registration, and the resolution of election disputes."
A total of 44 monitors from countries such as Germany, France, Serbia, Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan will “monitor an array of activities, including potential disputes at polling places.”
Although the OSCE has assessed elections since 2002 and insists that they were invited to do so again by U.S. authorities, they also admit to receiving significant pressure from liberal organizations such as the ACLU and the NAACP who are concerned about voter ID laws and early voting restrictions, which they believe may negatively affect minorities, low-income Americans, the elderly and women.
Catherine Engelbrecht, founder and president of True the Vote, a conservative-leaning group seeking to crack down on election fraud, sees it differently.
“These activist groups sought assistance not from American sources, but from the United Nations,” she said in a statement to The Hill. “The United Nations has no jurisdiction over American elections.”
Even though her own organization is now under scrutiny by the UN, she says True the Vote "may surpass a million volunteers" at polls this November.
“ . . . (W)e’re very excited about the level of enthusiasm, the number of volunteers, and the fact that we had a positive impact in bringing awareness to this important issue, of election integrity,” she said.
Speaking to Fox News' Megyn Kelly yesterday, Engelbrecht pointed out that all of the UN monitors come from countries that have voter ID laws.
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