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Veteran Pollster Allegedly Fired Over Email Criticizing U.N. Poll Watchers: They ‘Have No Business In/About Our Elections’

Nov. 3, 2012 7:00pm Jason Howerton

A veteran Sacramento poll worker says she was fired because she sent an email to her supervisor questioning the presence of the U.N. poll observers.

Shannon Lewis, who has been a poll worker in Sacramento for 15 years, said she “tapped out a really fast email” voicing her concerns about the international poll inspectors, CBS Sacramento reports.

“I just wanted to get my feelings known and get an answer to the question before polling day,” she said.

Lewis said that she saw the story about the United Nations observers coming to local polling stations on Facebook and wanted to get more information.

In her email, she wrote, “these are not our usual pollsters; they can’t vote here, and therefore have no business in/about our elections.”

And Lewis says within minutes her supervisor was on the line and telling her that she was out of a job. “She said ‘we can’t have any intolerance,’ and I said, ‘what exactly is it intolerant of?’”

Though U.N. monitors have been showing up at polling stations since 2002, Lewis says she was never told about them during her 15 years of training and experience. Sacramento County officials would not comment on the incident or give a reason for Lewis’s termination.

“I didn’t make the mistake of doing something on Election Day,” Lewis added.

“Shannon says she doesn’t plan on taking any legal action. She just hopes election officials see this story and are embarrassed by what they did,” CBS Sacramento reports.

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Abraham Young
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 8:21pm
Don’t kriticize the powers that be – especially if they be foreigners on our soil – overthrowing our duly elected polling officials, who have sworn an oath to the Constitution – which the UN have not. Just sayin’, this is a form of government which is invading OUR governing bodies, and we owe them no allegiance and they have NO business on our soil let alone in our polling places. I say we invalidate Sacramento and any polling place that permits these shenanigans to go on.

It’s UN-American.

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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 9:08pm
  Glenn Beck has been saying that election fraud is occurring.
  
  Do you not want impartial observers to be able to see and testify to the illegal acts?
  
  Or do you know that the charges are false and are afraid that Mr. Beck will be exposed again as a liar.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 9:36pm
  @BaryMethElizardeth
  
  http://freedomgraffiti.com/2012/10/30/chicagos-message-to-obama/
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RhgnHHhwPI
  
  I feel your pain. I’ve known and counseled many libs that were about to explode with all the pent-up anger they felt for their side and themselves. Don’t worry… after your obvious upcoming mental breakdown we on the right will be here for you. It’s only a matter of time and time is running out for you based on the progression of you posts.
  
  Yep, seen it many times. You’ll be a Republican in no time. Just keep up the hate. You know, just like Darth Vader. He turned and so….. will…… you……. Here’s a nice happy face for you. : )
  
  Just look in the mirror….. you’re all red faced with anger.
  
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- StrongWesternbabeluvinherWesternMAN
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 10:07pm
  to: Mary -B the- lizard-breath: You know what? When common sense Americans come 2 gether and say we are taking this country back we are not all of the same political agenda nor will we all agree on every single matter involving this America. We aren’t voting Romney/Ryan because we think they are gods who will doing everything for everyone’s liking. We expect many differences of opinion and expect we may have to agree 2 disagree on many issues. However, what we do expect is common sense and truth. We aren’t expecting 2 elect leaders and then not continue 2 be involved. The biggest and most important to all of us is: This America is a family who welcomes others to join if the rules we follow and live by are accepted by those who want 2 be in this American family..we are a patchwork quilt nation..all of different or blended colors…but just as it is in our own immediate families : IF SOMEONE PICKS ON OR PUTS ANY OF OUR FAMILY IN HARMS WAY LOOK OUT BECAUSE OUR SISTERS & BROTHERS MAY BE ON EAST TO WEST COAST & ALL IN THE MIDDLE & WE MAY NOT HAVE SHOOK EA OTHER’S HAND BUT AMERICANS R FAMILY. OTHER NATIONS DO NOT HAVE THE SAME RULES, BONDS, & GUTS THAT IS COURSING THROUGH THE VEINS OF ALL WHO BECOME AMERICANS……We are not going 2 tolerate outside unknown influence on what our family does…we may have arguments among ourselves but America’s business is Americas business & we will take care of our own….the UN is well known 4 their amoral approaches & we don’t wa
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 10:15pm
  ““She said ‘we can’t have any intolerance,’ … .” Then, she was fired.
  
  So, firing a lady for asking a valid question is now an example of tolerance. Liberals really are stupid people.
  
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- mastice
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 12:43am
  @marybethelizabeth
  
  There is election fraud occurring – in every system ever devised by mankind. Corruption is an inevitable side effect of humanity. Does that mean it is happening on a large scale here in the US? I don’t know that, and I think few people are 100% certain that it is.
  
  What I do know is that we are a sovereign country with our own set of laws. What I do know is that the little bit of (statistical) corruption is not so rampart here in the US that it warrants the attention of the United Nations poll watchers. What I do know is that we can police ourselves when it comes to weeding out voting corruption.
  
  In other words, the UN has absolutely no jurisdiction within our borders, and has no right to oversee our election process. If we were a dictatorship masquerading as a Republic (with a president that had been elected in landslide elections for the last 20 years) then I could see the UN looking on… but not here in the US.
  
  It has nothing to do with Beck or any other single personality.
  
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- koyettsu
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 8:03am
  We need to pressure the next President to stop funding the UN, I have been saying it for years they hate us, so why are we a part of it or funding it.
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 9:20am
  The UN will report [D] fraud as Republicans screwing the vote.
  
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- hotmonkeylovejunkie
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:16am
  maybe it’s just me, but when an entity like the UN allows nations, and i apologize i’m not certain of specifics, but of the likes of Iran or N. Korea to head Human Rights seats on their council, it would seem obvious to me then that the UN has no even less ground to be in our country at all. So get the fo and stay the fo.
  
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- ICEDRAGONNITE
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:36pm
  Fire the super. They go after who ever set this program up. The UN does not belong in this country, passing judgement on us. The UN is corrupt from the top to the bottom. We are getting their but are not there yet.
  
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mhojai
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 8:19pm
Another example of the vaunted liberal “tolerance.”
15 YEARS! It’s too bad she is unwilling to take any action. She should NOT lose her job becuase she made a perfectly valid point about UN intrusion.

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PatriotDadOfSix
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 8:18pm
Get them to assault you, then defend yourself. Beat the f*** out of em. But we all know California is going to obama anyway, and Texas is going to Romney; So as far as impacting the overall decision, this won’t matter much in either state. BUT, keep confronting them and knock em the ‘F’ out.

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Mike Benton
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 8:12pm
My blood is starting to biol over all the tricks I’m reading about; Memtally ill folks dragged to polling sites, Somalians with “interpreters bused in, homeless guys paid twenty bucks a pop to ride the bus to the polls. If he loses and riots break out…WATCH OUT!!!!!

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- friedclouds
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 8:56pm
  Lololol….slow down Mike! biol?….I appreciate your message, but really, spelling counts if you want people to take you seriously
  
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- Ziggy
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 12:43pm
  Since I am an unemployed citizen, I may just find the time to loiter near my precinct polling spot to film any interesting developments Tuesday.
  
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Bluefish49
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:56pm
I just read that if Obama loses there will be massive, violent riots….oh please let this be true…I’ve been un-employed for four months now and have tons of old ammo I need to use….

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coyote1hell
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:51pm
Hope is on the Rope, Buh’rack dropped the Soap…again, Barney Frank was there to get his back..

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Texas Hills Patriot
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:38pm
I was hoping I would run into those U.N. poll watchers when I voted the other day, but none were present. I had a few thought I’d like to share with them; none of them would be appreciated, I’m sure.

Those idiots in Sacramento don’t even try to hide their distaste for anyone who questions their authority.

Shannon, it may be off to the re-education camps for you, but thanks for standing up and questioning what they are allowing to happen.

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- randy
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:59pm
  I’ll spit right in their faces if I see any when I vote for Romney/Ryan
  
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PIPCO
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:38pm
My way or the highway, is what they call tolerance, got it?

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airportengineer
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:36pm
Want to Bet her Supervisor is Black???

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- Stuck_in_CA
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:43pm
  BREAKING: NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates for President Obama
  
  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…
  Full text: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/11/03/breaking_naacp_takes_over_polling_station_advocates_for_president_obama_at_houston_polling_location
  
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- Live2BeFree
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 8:19pm
  StuckInCal – what people are missing about this is scary. I’d like this looked into as well. The address of the early voting in Houston, TX is THE SAME ADDRESS as Rep Sheila Jackson Lee’s office address.
  
  Rep Sheila Jackson Lee’s office.
  Acres Home Office
  6719 West Montgomery Suite 204
  Houston, TX 77091 (713) 691-4882
  
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piper60
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:32pm
U.N. pollsters at the AMERICAN polling places. Just like any other 3rd world country. Obama and Soros must be proud.

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ZAP
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:29pm
UN COMMUNISTS monitoring a REPUBLIC AMERICA,like putting a fox in a chicken house

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jamestoms
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:25pm
Folks the USA is dead full of Commies, Traitors, Thieves, Murderers, and one stinking Arab at the Helm.

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The-Monk
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:24pm
“Shannon says she doesn’t plan on taking any legal action. She just hopes election officials see this story and are embarrassed by what they did,”

It’s impossible to embarrass a liberal, socialist, marxist democrat.

One has to have character and honesty to be embarrassed.

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BODYBAG
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:22pm
Hey folks, anyone who feels strongly enough and motivated may want to bond together
in groups in your area and watch polling locations ——- The dirty tricks are underway——

BREAKING: NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates for President Obama
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/11/03/breaking_naacp_takes_over_polling_station_advocates_for_president_obama_at_houston_polling_location

This is in TX for God’s sake. Apparently the polling authorities are turning a blind eye.

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:38pm
  Saw this on both Breitbart and Drudge. Judges aren’t doing anything, either.
  She-gorilla Jackson Lee’s district.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:51pm
  This monkey business won’t be tolerated and the citizens should get the sheriff involved and throw the agitators out on their fat asses.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:54pm
  Whats really interesting —- watching excepts from rally’s today by both Romney & The Boy-King
  it really has become obvious the striking difference ——
  
  Romney clearly comes off as the Presidential statesman, the adult.
  
  Barry just looks & sounds like a desperate ghetto shyster — his language even devolves into that
  fake accent as he shouts out one-liners, he grins & snickers as he lies and mocks Romney.
  
  I couldnt believe my ears when I heard Barry use that line “Bin Laden is dead and al Qaeda is on the run”
  Its like Libya 09/11 never happened.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 8:09pm
  BAG That’s right Romney’s the adult and he’s going to school the Marxist mulatto POS heathen fraud bastard on the 6th. Barry is nothing but a carnival barker promising ‘free stuff’ for the parasitical pustules on society who are destroying this country from within. It’ll be great to not hear that goofy F ed up voice the mulatto uses and to not see the smiling jackal on TV 24/7. Barry also needs to be in prison for his fraudulent presidency.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 8:24pm
  Hi BODYBAG,
  
  My 1st reply post apparently didn’t post????
  
  Thanks for that link. I sent it in. : )
  
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kalli
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:18pm
Well, it has just been reported that NAACP people took over a poll station in Houston, TX, hauled in water to hand out, talked about who to vote for, moved people from the back of the lines to the front. When a poll watcher from True to Vote complained to the supervisor, nothing was said or done. When she told the asst. supervisor, nothing was said or done. She then was called to a phone to be told by a downtown supervisor to “stand down.” That must be the new mantra for ovomit and his piglets.

These people should be arrested for illegal interference at the voting booths.

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- U.N.hater
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:26pm
  And the NAACP is worse. Well Texas is becomeing California.http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/11/03/breaking_naacp_takes_over_polling_station_advocates_for_president_obama_at_houston_polling_location
  
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Dde13
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:18pm
This is disgusting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIRE AN AMERICAN over a foreigner. They should NOT BE HERE!!!!!!!!!!

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Gary_K
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:17pm
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/nov/02/tp-families-differ-on-us-response/

I think the UN has no business messing with our elections….get the UN out of the US and the US out of the communist UN.

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barber2
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:14pm
The UN , who has notorious abusers on their so-called Human Rights Committee, has NO business monitoring our elections. They are now being run by the anti-capitalist / anti-Israel / anti-America wing. That is why Obama felt so comfortable running the ” the video caused these riots” routine at the UN two weeks after four Americans died in Benghazi. The UN and Obama belong in a gulag to protect democracy loving people all over the world. The UN has become a cesspool of bigots and bullies. Much like the Far Left Chicago Obama Democrat crowd. NOBAMA. NO UNITED NATIONS NO MSM 2012

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whiterightwingchristianmale
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:11pm
This has to end. No U.N. anything in my America. Lets put a boot in the ass of U.N. “poll watchers” and the democrats that support them. Who gave them this authority? God Bless Texas!

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QuincySmith
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:10pm
I spoke with US Attorney who told me that these are NOT UN observers. They are Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ‘OSCE’ observers, that they were invited by the State Dept and have been for a number of years. He gave me names and numbers to contact at State, which I plan to do Monday.

http://www.osce.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCE

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- barber2
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:16pm
  You and The Blaze should do a follow up with what you find out about this information .
  
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- Edohiguma
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:17pm
  Doesn’t make it any better. OSCE are EUSSR goons and the EUSSR is the testbed for the UN.
  
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- QuincySmith
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:27pm
  Didn’t say it was better only that UN reports are incorrect.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:40pm
  Hi QuincySmith,
  
  I sent your post in…. thanks.
  
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Ixion
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:10pm
I hate to say it, but this is in California, one of the bastions of liberalism in the US. Of course they are in love with the UN and all they stand for! What else would you expect?

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338lapua
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:08pm
I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for “embarrassment” from these folks…….I mean Sacramento?

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bobdudley
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:08pm
Shannon is right. there is NO reason for another country to be monitoring our elections. We bow to no one on this planet.

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- Look4DBigPicture
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:27pm
  Obama bows to all countries, but I agree with you … WE don’t bow.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:08pm
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The poll worker is totally correct.
The U.N. has no business being near our voting booths.

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NO_MORE_OBAMA
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:07pm
If I see some UN poll watcher at my poling site. I may just knock his azz out ;)

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- whiterightwingchristianmale
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:18pm
  NO_MORE_OBAMA Your a great American!
  
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- NO_MORE_OBAMA
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 8:34pm
  It would only take 12 to 16 great Americans to kick a few UN observers azzes. They won’t stick there nose in our business again.
  
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- somecallmeMC
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 12:00pm
  don’t forget to vote first, lol
  
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- Adobewalls
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 12:40pm
  If as Americans we gave them the choice of airport or jail I think most would leave.
  
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