Thursday, November 01, 2012

Iowa Warns International Observers: Get too close, you will be arrested

Iowa has joined Texas in warning international election observers of possible criminal prosecution if they violate state laws and get near polling places on Election Day.

Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz — like Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott last week — on Tuesday threatened Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe election observers with arrest if they came within 300 feet of a polling place’s entrance, in violation of state law. (In Texas, it’s 100 feet.)

Read more at Politico 

And remember, from a Constitutional point of view, the States have every right to arrest these observers. The States, remember, have the power to choose the manner in which elections shall be held in their States.

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