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Mission Statement
True the Vote is an initiative developed by citizens for citizens, meant to inspire and equip volunteers for involvement at every stage of our electoral process. We promote ideas that actively protect the rights of legitimate voters, regardless of their political party affiliation.
We are working to restore integrity to the American system of electing its leaders. With True the Vote, we have, "deconstructed the entire process, focusing on educating voters, examining the registry, recruiting, training and mobilizing election workers and poll watchers, training how to collect data all along the way, then use the data to shape government action and legislative agendas to support desperately needed election code reform."
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Who is True The Vote?
Based in Houston, Texas and headed by Catherine Engelbrecht (President), True The Vote is staffed by volunteers all across the country. Essentially, True The Vote is you and me. Every day Americans interested in the integrity of the elections in the home district.
reply to post by ManBehindTheMask
Give me a break...........everytime I hear about this crap that you just spewed , I pick up at a picture of my great grandfather, and im filled with pride that my ancestry has conducted themselves the way they have........and havent spent decades trying to get special treatment playing the victim card......
It's clear some people have strong feelings about the above not being a fair or honest representation of their purpose or nature as an organization. I welcome any of those to offer anything supported or otherwise solid to dispute their own Mission statement and purpose
Verify The Vote, Arizona Elections Task Force is proud to present Catherine Engelbrecht from True The Vote in Houston, Texas. Despite her in demand schedule, she has amazingly agreed to spend three days in Arizona.
Catherine and her group, King Street Patriots, got the Voter ID law passed in Texas that is now under attack by the DOJ. What consequences will this have for Arizona? Come and find out…
www.teapartytribune.com...
Come join us as we enjoy a lunch buffet with Glenn Beck in a fundraiser to build an Emergency Underground Hospital for the Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Israel. Sponsored by Montgomery County Tea Party and The King Street Patriots. Limited to 250 Guests. Ticket Price $250 per person.
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Catherine and her group, King Street Patriots, got the Voter ID law passed in Texas that is now under attack by the DOJ. What consequences will this have for Arizona? Come and find out…
The recall petitions in Wisconsin for Gov. Scott Walker were loaded with bogus signatures. Catherine spearheaded an effort to recruit over 14,000 volunteers nationwide to challenge these signatures. The repercussions were felt all across the country. What does this mean for this and future recall elections? Come and find out…
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Break bread with Glenn Beck and at the same time help the Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Israel to finish the conversion of an underground parking lot into a 400 bed emergency facility. Enjoy a buffet lunch and libations with Glenn and listen to his mission to help Israel. A casual buffet luncheon will be served from 1 to 3pm on Sunday, November 11, 2012. Tickets are limited to 250.
There are 18 tickets available for Sponsorship with private lunch and pictures with Glenn Beck from 12:30 to 1:00 PM.
Glenn will be speaking about his feelings about Israel and it will be live streamed by King Street Patriots.
This event is an extremely worthy cause, with net proceeds going to Health to Israel, a Texas 501(c) (3), which supports the Assaf Harofeh Medical Center. Each ticket sold will be considered a $200 tax-deductible contribution.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by FreebirdGirl
Okay, well... Replies are always appreciated. I have to say that.
Now... your first citation shows her being the guest of an Arizona Tea Party group to speak. Funny though....Why did you leave off the other paragraph? You included the rest...?
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Catherine and her group, King Street Patriots, got the Voter ID law passed in Texas that is now under attack by the DOJ. What consequences will this have for Arizona? Come and find out…
The recall petitions in Wisconsin for Gov. Scott Walker were loaded with bogus signatures. Catherine spearheaded an effort to recruit over 14,000 volunteers nationwide to challenge these signatures. The repercussions were felt all across the country. What does this mean for this and future recall elections? Come and find out…
I suppose that explains why this woman has some deep deep hate from some on the left. She was instrumental in throwing a wrench into one of the key campaigns of recent years. So, aside from straight ideology, is there evidence she is dishonest or has acted in a way that violates....anything? You present the fact the has spoken at Tea Party events as evidence of....what exactly? We aren't seriously suggesting that everyone to appear at political events opposed to our own ideology is somehow dishonest or a fraud based on that, are we?
The second one..is even more interesting. The need for an Emergency Underground Hospital is what I find interesting. Then again, it's Israel and they do things just a little different than everyone else so maybe not so much.
Here are the event details covering all of it. (You're kinda selective about how you cite things, aren't you? I gotta remember to check your links every time for what else they have in context material)
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Break bread with Glenn Beck and at the same time help the Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Israel to finish the conversion of an underground parking lot into a 400 bed emergency facility. Enjoy a buffet lunch and libations with Glenn and listen to his mission to help Israel. A casual buffet luncheon will be served from 1 to 3pm on Sunday, November 11, 2012. Tickets are limited to 250.
There are 18 tickets available for Sponsorship with private lunch and pictures with Glenn Beck from 12:30 to 1:00 PM.
Glenn will be speaking about his feelings about Israel and it will be live streamed by King Street Patriots.
This event is an extremely worthy cause, with net proceeds going to Health to Israel, a Texas 501(c) (3), which supports the Assaf Harofeh Medical Center. Each ticket sold will be considered a $200 tax-deductible contribution.
I certainly understand the almost unmatched hatred the left has for Glenn Beck. Personally, he's as much a source of information as anyone else in Media to me. He gets some right....he gets some wrong. Hence....Glenn is no MORE reliable than anyone else to me, either. Simply being involved with one of his events is evidence of...what?
Do you have anything showing REAL misconduct and not simply a Political organization being....political? You're attempting to attack them as a source for news as they stood as authorized observers in an Official polling place. You'll have to find something with real wrong doing....or at least the very strong implication of it? These examples show me they were instrumental and successful in rooting out signature problems in Wisconsin (which I followed very closely as a story at the time) and they were involved with Beck in a charity event for a new Hospital. Hmmm... Sound like decent people, overall?
(I get it...they're black to your white in politics...Oil to your water...but that doesn't make them dishonest)
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
This is an interesting story and I hope it's as rare as it is obscene.
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.
This is, without question, a violation of United States Federal Law. It's not mere regulation, rule or ordinance. It is federal law. The Federal law HAS NO MISDEMEANOR defined as such. Every Federal Crime is a Felony. I hope people keep that firmly in mind this election.
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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.
It sounds to me like those running that polling place need to be suspended from any such duties for the rest of this election period, if not permanently. This is an election where riots are threatened. Pastors and Comedians alike are making threatening statements on national television (however they'd like to play it off later). It's more important now than EVER before that there be *NO* polling place funny business tolerated.
To borrow a line from our Orwellian Aunt Janet.....If you SEE something, SAY something. MORE importantly...If you see something FILM IT! ! Pics or it didn't happen has never been more critical than now.
Don't ignore it and don't let it be someone else's problem. Republican or Democrat. It doesn't matter. This is YOUR nation as much as the other guy's. Help keep it that way and help keep ^^^THIS criminal activity from happening any more this cycle. It's only our nation as long as we stand to keep it.
(Hops off soapbox)
It's clear some people have strong feelings about the above not being a fair or honest representation of their purpose or nature as an organization. I welcome any of those to offer anything supported or otherwise solid to dispute their own Mission statement and purpose
Originally posted by cornucopia
Calls from Republican Congressman Jeff Flake's campaign instructed Democratic voters to cast ballots at the wrong polling locations
lots of sneaky stuff going on, republicans have to cheat to win...there are not enough registered republicans to ever win fairly.
www.youtube.com...
Originally posted by cornucopia
lots of sneaky stuff going on, republicans have to cheat to win...there are not enough registered republicans to ever win fairly.
www.youtube.com...
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
I came back to share this and give some more perspective. I'm a little taken aback by the reaction to this group.
Mission Statement
True the Vote is an initiative developed by citizens for citizens, meant to inspire and equip volunteers for involvement at every stage of our electoral process. We promote ideas that actively protect the rights of legitimate voters, regardless of their political party affiliation.
It's clear some people have strong feelings about the above not being a fair or honest representation of their purpose or nature as an organization. I welcome any of those to offer anything supported or otherwise solid to dispute their own Mission statement and purpose.
True the Vote is a grassroots initiative spun out of a Houston, Texas-based Tea Party organization called King Street Patriots. Its focus is on training volunteers to serve as poll watchers on Election Day and inspecting voter registration rolls for hints of inconsistency to flag to elections officials.
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But many of the group’s tactics have come under fire for intimidating would-be voters and raising the specter of voter suppression. True the Vote has been backed mainly by Republican lawmakers and opposed by voting advocates that warn of minority disenfranchisement.
Originally posted by Indigo5
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
C'Mon...
(1) "TowbHall.com" is not journalism...it is idealogical propaganda...I don't read the far left trash either.
(2) Handing out water is not electioneering.
(3) You are telling me that the NAACP decides to risk arrest of its members and expensive law suits to sway the presidential election in HOUSTON TEXAS??? NOT FL, OH, WI...BUT TEXAS where Romney has a 20 point lead??? I Call BS.
In the idealogical fiction cateragory: A+ for exageration, C+ for writing style, F for believability...the premise makes no sense.edit on 5-11-2012 by Indigo5 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Juggernog
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
He does have a point. Obama has absolutely ZERO chance of winning Texas. I cant believe that hes running commercials here, I see at least one a day.
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By the fall 2010 election, volunteers again appeared to focus on minority neighborhoods, this time as election observers, Mr. Ray said.
“The first day of early voting, at many of the 37 locations, primarily in minority neighborhoods, dozens of poll watchers showed up sent by King Street Patriots,” Mr. Ray said.
The influx of white election observers in black neighborhoods caused friction with voters and poll workers, bringing back memories of a time when racial intimidation at the polls was commonplace in the South, said Gerald M. Birnberg, a lawyer and former chairman of the Harris County Democratic Party. True the Vote has strongly denied that it has engaged in voter suppression.
“Whether that was the intention or just born of some innate paranoia is largely irrelevant,” Mr. Birnberg said. “That’s how it was perceived by people at the polls.”
(2) Handing out water is not electioneering.
(3) You are telling me that the NAACP decides to risk arrest of its members and expensive law suits to sway the presidential election in HOUSTON TEXAS??? NOT FL, OH, WI...BUT TEXAS where Romney has a 20 point lead??? I Call BS.