BREAKING: NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates for President Obama

[ScienceRocks]

Breaking: NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates for President Obama
Town Hall ^ | 11/3/2012 | Katie Pavlich

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.

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.”

“All of the sudden one of the clerks, Dayan Cohen, said that someone wanted to speak to me on the phone. It was someone from downtown. I got on the phone and she said she was from downtown and that I needed to stand down and that it was okay for the NAACP to be within 100 ft. and they could hand out water. I told her that the NAACP was inside the building, wearing the NAACP clothing and caps and were handing out water and moving people from the back of the lines to the front of the lines,” Rockford said.

At this point, NAACP members were instructed to turn their clothing inside out, which they refused to do and said they weren’t going to stop their actions inside the polling place. Their behavior and actions to move people to the front of the line continued for the rest of the evening. Texas State Representative Sylvester Turner, a former Texas NAACP leader, was also seen outside the building talking with voters.

“The NAACP basically ran this poll location and the judges did nothing about it,” Rockford said.

BREAKING: NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates for President Obama - Katie Pavlich


These people don't believe in our democratic system just the fact that Obama is BLACK. Why can't people get over race???? The last thing on my mind is race....What I care about is this country.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Blacks always demand their own set of rules.

Yep,

They want a double standard...If not then they become violent.

 

[Conservative]

BREAKING: NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates for President Obama

"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.

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.”

“All of the sudden one of the clerks, Dayan Cohen, said that someone wanted to speak to me on the phone. It was someone from downtown. I got on the phone and she said she was from downtown and that I needed to stand down and that it was okay for the NAACP to be within 100 ft. and they could hand out water. I told her that the NAACP was inside the building, wearing the NAACP clothing and caps and were handing out water and moving people from the back of the lines to the front of the lines,” Rockford said.

At this point, NAACP members were instructed to turn their clothing inside out, which they refused to do and said they weren’t going to stop their actions inside the polling place. Their behavior and actions to move people to the front of the line continued for the rest of the evening. Texas State Representative Sylvester Turner, a former Texas NAACP leader, was also seen outside the building talking with voters.

“The NAACP basically ran this poll location and the judges did nothing about it,” Rockford said.​

Illegal. No question.

But Obama boot-lickers will see nothing wrong with it.

Were the police called?

I know it's a difficult time for you, and clearly your emotions are on the brink, but all they need to do is call the police.

Buck up!

you're not allowed to use just part of a quote form another poster in your sig.... it has to be the entire quote... by using just a small piece of the linked quote, you change the meaning of the statement you did use.

Essentially, you suck.

 

[Conservative]

What a load of crap!

If anything illegal is going on at a poll, call the federal Marshall's office.

Otherwise STFU!

Do you not understand that electioneering within the polling place is against the law?

 

[Ernie S.]

Illegal how?

I think I understand where you are coming from... If it was a bunch of TEA Party folks, THEN it would be illegal, right?

 

[Mr. H.]

If Liarbart says it, it must be true.

Like your believeable, how familiar are you with Houston? Not very, if you have any doubt about this. I saw a piece on it on local tv.

Anything? Yo.

 

[Oddball]

Illegal how?

I think I understand where you are coming from... If it was a bunch of TEA Party folks, THEN it would be illegal, right?

Meh...He honestly didn't know....Now he does.

I can live with that.

 

[Ernie S.]

If Liarbart says it, it must be true.

Like your believeable, how familiar are you with Houston? Not very, if you have any doubt about this. I saw a piece on it on local tv.

Ocupado???? Where'd you go?

 

[percysunshine]

Heh...Harris County is the reddest county in the country. Maybe two people will vote for Obama....chuckle

 

[Ernie S.]

Illegal how?

I think I understand where you are coming from... If it was a bunch of TEA Party folks, THEN it would be illegal, right?

Meh...He honestly didn't know....Now he does.

I can live with that.

I missed that, I guess. I assumed everyone knew that you couldn't electioneer within a certain distance of the polls. (75 feet in CT, 100 most everywhere else that I've lived.

 

[Mr. H.]

If Liarbart says it, it must be true.

Like your believeable, how familiar are you with Houston? Not very, if you have any doubt about this. I saw a piece on it on local tv.

Ocupado???? Where'd you go?

Yeah no shit. I've been periodically Googling this and get the usual results.

It ain't credible until it's on TV.

 

[tyroneweaver]

BREAKING: NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates for President Obama - Katie Pavlich


...and they make a person vote the Bible cover her shirt. Amazing

 

[Mr. H.]

“The NAACP basically ran this poll location and the judges did nothing about it,” Rockford said.

 

[Darkwind]

Were the police called?

I know it's a difficult time for you, and clearly your emotions are on the brink, but all they need to do is call the police.

Buck up!

You know squat.

But you just make sure you don't condemn Democrats for breaking the law. You'll get called a liar and a racist.

What's the big deal? Call the police.

Hold in those tears. You still have your moderate, establishment Speaker of the House. Unless the Democrats take that away, too.

voter fraud doesn't happen, right sparky?

 

[Darkwind]

Heh...Harris County is the reddest county in wthe country. Maybe two people will vote for Obama....chuckle

What, exactly, does that have to do with this illicit activity?

 

[Mr. H.]

Heh...Harris County is the reddest county in wthe country. Maybe two people will vote for Obama....chuckle

What, exactly, does that have to do with this illicit activity?

Are your farts black?

 

[Darkwind]

Heh...Harris County is the reddest county in wthe country. Maybe two people will vote for Obama....chuckle

What, exactly, does that have to do with this illicit activity?

Are your farts black?

Only when they pass out from the PBR and salami!

lol

 

[candycorn]

Black people trying to vote in Texas, I guess, makes headline news.

 

[candycorn]

The local paper there, The Houston Chronicle had nothing about this crisis. I think this may be just another molehill carefully crafted into a mountain by the right wing lunatics--just like Ben Gotcha.

 

[percysunshine]

Heh...Harris County is the reddest county in wthe country. Maybe two people will vote for Obama....chuckle

What, exactly, does that have to do with this illicit activity?

It will not change the outcome of any vote.