Texas tells UN poll observers to stay out of Texas...

Do you even know which countries these monitors represent? One is Germany where they have strict voter ID laws. You can't vote if you don't have your government-issued voter card and ID with you. Another is Belarus where they just held a disputed election a couple of weeks ago. The election results are disputed because there were more votes cast than there are voters. Come on. It's like putting the human rights violators on the UN Human Rights Council (China, Saudi Arabia, etc). The UN is an organization that is highly biased against the US and they are sending crooks and liars to see if we are straight?

I have no idea what you are getting agitated about. I am saying that I find the idea absurd BUT no nation, including yours, is without its corrupt elements.

p1kef1sh ..There has been voter fraud and intimidation...but the UN is the LAST place that should be monitoring our elections. It's the hypocrisy of who is monitoring.

"As a matter of fact if Romney wins, I'll need to see his birth certificate, his college transcripts, and his last tax return." The biggest difference between Obama and Romney is that Romney can and will show those things to you. He's already shown his tax return.

My point exactly, it isn't disruptive. That's about the best I hope for out of politics any more. When has doing something unnecessary that isn't their business to do ever been a concern of government? If the UN being there doesn't change the outcome, then why get upset over it? It's like blaming a storm in London for the outcome of a baseball game in Los Angeles.

knoodleknight18 It isn't a matter of UN monitors being disruptive..it's more a matter of it's not necessary and the UN has no business in our voting process.

Please look at who requested that they monitor, Debater. Liberal groups telling tales of boogeymen in Tea Party clothing coming to keep the poor, the minorities and anyone voting from Obama, away from the polls, that's who. That's how we know it's a tool of the Obama campaign. It's his people who asked for the monitors, expressing such fear that conservatives will suppress the vote by asking for things like ID. Course, in Germany, where one of the monitors is from, you can't vote without your government issued Voter ID card... ah well. It could aaaaa-ffect the election if these monitors interfere at the polling places. Excuse my sudden William F Buckley Jr accent.

"This is just another tool of the Obama campaign to desperately try to sway the election towards Obama. It's just one of many tools and plots and schemes." What FACTS do you have that could possible justify this comment? How could these people effect the election?

Rollo1 I agree with you...and while they have no real power, they are another tool used for proapaganda..we should 'kick the UN out of the US'

Yeah, let's go back a couple of hundred years to find a way for you to make your point Debater. Taxation without representation. It was what they fought against back then. Now, it's happening every day.

Stary, Here is a quote from Judson Phillips president of Tea Party Nation: "The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn't you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you're a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you're not a property owner, you know, I'm sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners." By the way, the founding fathers also didn't allow women to vote, or black people. Sound like a good idea to you? Rush Limbaugh also said that the poor shouldn't be allowed to vote either: “This story raises a very unpolitically correct question. If people can’t even feed and clothe themselves should they be allowed to vote? Should they be voting? If people who are receiving government assistance, that is taxpayer assistance, if they weren’t allowed to vote can you imagine the political difference in this country? Can you imagine? It’s just a think piece, putting it out there for you to ponder?” http://www.politicususa.com/limbaugh-poor-vote.html

thegreatdebater.. I have never heard of anyone objecting to renters voting just because they rent and do not pay property taxes...can you tell me where and when that occurred? TY

lilwonders456 They were invited unfortunately..and while they have no power or authority they clearly are ticking off quite a few..

bostonphil I often refer to Pres G W Bush as GW....