UN rights council delves into US voter I.D. laws

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

The controversy over requiring voters to provide photo IDs has reached the world stage.

The United Nations Human Rights Council is investigating the issue of American election laws at its gathering on minority rights in Geneva, Switzerland.. This, despite the fact that some members of the council have only in the past several years allowed women to vote, and one member, Saudi Arabia, still bars women from the voting booth completely.

Officials from the NAACP are presenting their case against U.S. voter ID laws, arguing to the international diplomats that the requirements disenfranchise voters and suppress the minority vote.

Eight states have passed voter ID laws in the past year, voter ID proposals are pending in 32 states and the Obama administration has recently moved to block South Carolina and Texas from enacting their voter ID measures.

"This really is a tactic that undercuts the growth of your democracy," said Hillary Shelton, the NAACP's senior vice president for advocacy, about voter photo ID requirements.

In a Fox News interview prior to his trip, Shelton said the message from the NAACP delegation to the Human Rights Council is that the photo ID law "undercuts the integrity of our government, if you allow it to happen. It's trickery, it's a sleight-of-hand. We're seeing it happen here and we don't want it to happen to you, and we are utilizing the U.N. as a tool to make sure that we are able to share that with those countries all over the world."

The United Nations has no legal jurisdiction over the American electoral system, which Shelton acknowledges. Asked whether he thinks that the U.N. should be involved in domestic American laws, he answered, "No, not specifically. The U.N. should certainly be involved in sharing a best practice for the world."

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Because they've been so great at it so far...

[clearvision]

This is stupid beyond belief.

[SrWoodchuck]

They must have international agreement on their travesty of voter rights. Everything through the corrupt funnel of the UN.

[Argyle58]

Let us see how this may go over in the U.N.....the following countries require voter ID:

 

Australia

Canada

Denmark

Finland

Germany

Hong Kong

Israel

Italy

Mexico

Norway

Switzerland

United Kingdom

 

In many of these countries voter registration is automatic, in some it is compulsory. All have some sort of unique way of assuring proof of the identification of the person voting.