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

And yet a "Vote the Bible" T shirt was verbotten

On Sunday, November 4, 2012 7:00:05 AM UTC-5, lew wrote:

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


Katie Pavlich
 News Editor, Townhall.com
Nov 03, 2012 05:46 PM EST

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.

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