NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Place

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My post from the American Thinker blog today:

NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling
Place
By Matthew Vadum
There are credible
reports
that NAACP activists took over a Houston, Texas,
polling station, urged voters to vote for the Obama-Biden presidential ticket,
and also gave them rewards to do so.
Poll watcher Eve Rockford said members of the left-wing
so-called civil rights group appeared at the early polling place wearing
NAACP-labeled clothing and 50 cases of bottled water.  The activists handed out the water bottles to
individuals standing in line waiting to vote.  They were also “stirring the crowd” and
“talking to voters about flying to Ohio
to promote President Barack Obama,” said Rockford,
who was trained in poll-watching by True the Vote, a prominent electoral
integrity organization.
Rockford said, “The
NAACP began hand picking people out of the lines and began moving these people
to the front of the line.  The people
were getting mad and asking why were these people being moved to the front of
the line.”
Rockford said
she complained about these irregularities and election officials at the site
did nothing.
While no group has been able to match the impressive voter
fraud body count generated by the Association of Community Organizations for
Reform Now (ACORN) over the years, the NAACP has been nipping at ACORN’s heels.  The Houston
action is just the NAACP’s most recent adventure in the world of election
fraud.
Last year a Tunica, Mississippi
jury sent Mississippi NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers to prison for five
years.  She was convicted of voting 10
times using the names of other people, some of whom were dead. At sentencing,
Circuit Court Judge Charles Webster said, “This crime cuts against the fabric
of our free society,” according to the Tunica
Times
.
The NAACP Voter Fund registered a dead man to vote in Lake
County, Ohio, in 2004. (Plain Dealer, Sept. 23, 2004)  The same year, out of 325 voter registration
cards filed by the NAACP in Cleveland,
48 were ruled to be fraudulent.  (Akron Beacon Journal, Sept. 29, 2004)
In 2005 in
Defiance County, Ohio,
Chad Staton pleaded
guilty
to 10 counts of falsifying voter registration forms.  A grand jury indictment stated the man had
filed forms in the names of Jeffrey Dahmer, Brett Favre, George Foreman, Maria
Lopez, and George Lopez, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Michael Jordan, Mary
Poppins, and Dick Tracy.  Staton had been
hired by Georgianne Pitts, who worked for the NAACP Voter Fund.
Despite such reports, the NAACP and its allies in the media
remain stuck in voter fraud denial mode.
Earlier this year NAACP official Jotaka Eaddy said voter
fraud was overblown as an issue.  Anti-voter
fraud laws are “created really to drive fear,” said Eaddy, who is special
assistant to NAACP President Ben Jealous and senior director of the NAACP’s
voting rights project.
“When we look at the tactics that are being used to put
forth these laws it’s to shrink the electorate.  Mass confusion of voters.  Just chaos, create chaos,” Eaddy said at the
left-wing Take Back the American Dream conference in Washington,
D.C., on June 19.
Eaddy is just one member of an army of well-funded voter
fraud-deniers.  These left-wingers, who
often work for nonprofits funded by George Soros, typically claim that voter
fraud is a figment of conservatives’ imagination and that anyone who wishes to
combat it is guilty of voter suppression.
Touré, a co-host of MSNBC show “The Cycle,” said earlier
this year on his show that “voter fraud is a red herring … it does not exist.”
After Ari Berman of the Nation
and Adam Serwer of Mother Jones,
probably the worst vote-fraud denier in the world of journalism is Brentin Mock,
who relentlessly attacks electoral integrity advocates as code word-using racists.
 To Mock, poll-watching aimed at catching
and deterring fraud is racist vigilantism, little different from the lynchings of
the Jim Crow era.  Mock describes voter
fraud as a “myth,” and refers to the respected Heritage Foundation legal
scholar Hans von Spakovsky and political columnist John Fund as “anti-voting
rights activists and voter fraud hucksters.”
He describes True the Vote as one of hundreds of Tea Party
groups across the nation that has “plugged itself into an existing
infrastructure of influential far-right organizations hellbent on criminalizing
abortion, banishing gun control, repealing the Affordable Care Act — and now,
on intimidating would-be voters.”
That’s what it’s come to in the age of Obama.  Volunteer your time to promote good government
and get smeared as a racist.
Matthew Vadum is an investigative reporter
in
Washington, D.C.
 His book on ACORN and President
Obama, Subversion Inc., was
published last year.