Texas, Alabama tell U.N. it does not have jurisdiction to interfer with elections

State Attorney General Greg Abbott to the UN: Don’t Mess with Texas, Y’all

Bryan Preston
Tatler
PJ Media
10/23/2012

More elected American officials need to act like this.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today advised the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe — a United Nations partner — that groups and individuals from outside the United States do not have jurisdiction to interfere with Texas elections. The Attorney General’s letter comes after the international group — comprised of 56 members including EU nations and other countries such as Albania, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, the Russian Federation, Slovenia and Turkey — announced they would be sending election observers to sites throughout the United States, including Texas, on Election Day.

Democratic groups that oppose voter ID laws — despite their widespread majority support and the fact that majorities in state legislatures have passed them — called on the UN to send monitors to states that have passed those laws. Abbott warns those whom the UN is sending, that Texans don’t like meddlers and we will enforce our laws…

The article continues at PJ Media.

Also, Hubbard Moves to Block United Nations Poll Watchers from Operating in Alabama.

Montgomery – In response to news that poll watchers affiliated with the United Nations will be sent across the country to monitor balloting in various states and search for evidence of “voter suppression” during the upcoming November 6 presidential election, Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard said he will support legislation in the next session requiring all poll watchers in Alabama to hold U.S. citizenship.

“The United States is the worldwide beacon of free elections and the Republican form of government, so having an international squad from the United Nations playing referee in our elections is insulting and absurd,” Hubbard said. “We’ve been holding elections in the U.S. for the past 223 years without the United Nations playing a role or enforcing the rules, and we certainly don’t want or need them now.”…

 

H/T Weasel Zippers

Update: via The Liberal Offender:

 

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