Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott isn’t backing down from his threat to prosecute foreign poll watchers observing the U.S. election if they come within 100 feet of a polling place in the Lone Star State.
Abbott said in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday afternoon that observers with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) seemed to be “under the misimpression that the State Department can somehow help its representatives circumvent the Texas Election Code.” Abbott said Texas needs assurance that OSCE poll watchers will obey his state’s laws as well as federal election laws.
“If the OSCE does not wish to follow the laws that govern everyone else present in the State of Texas, including the voters who elect our State’s leaders, then perhaps it should dispatch its representatives to another state,” Abbott wrote.
