Democrat Rep. Barbara Lee is making a “personal” plea that the United States recruit foreign election monitors from the United Nations. Claiming these “monitors” would prevent Republicans from engaging in their imaginary “voter suppression” tactics.

Speaking at “She The People 2019,” Lee posited that the only way to prevent voter suppression and foreign influence in our 2020 Presidential election would be to bring in foreign influence from the United Nations.

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“I personally want to ask the U.N. to come in, I’ve observed elections all over the world, and I think right now we need election observers from all over the world coming to monitor and look at these tactics … so that maybe if we put some sunshine on it, you know, at least we’ll be able to cast our vote until we get all of these laws changed.”

Woman: “I know we can;t get all of our hopes into the [inaudible] process, but I know it’s at least one less black body laying in the street. If we don’t try to change who’s in power, we’re never going to have the ability to win on our own issues. And I believe that voting is that first step. I truly believe that if voting were so important, they wouldn’t try so hard to stop us from doing it.”

(Applause)

Democrat Rep. Barbara Lee: “Thank you very much. And you just laid out the story of everyone in our country who have been marginalized, who would vote for the progressive agenda and who the right-wing in this country want to suppress. Voter suppression is alive and well. So in Congress, of course, we’re working on — we have legislation, H.R.4, that would restore the Voting Rights Act because, you know, the Voting Rights Act was totally gutted.

We also have hearings that are being conducted around the country, headed by Congresswoman Marcia Fudge to really build the record so that we can move forward with even stronger legislation. But aside from the legislative efforts to restore the Voting Rights Act, we have to work at the state and local level in terms of making sure that these Voter ID laws are not passed, making sure that we have — and we’re into this next election cycle right now.

Monitors, lawyers, people watching the polls all the time, I personally want to ask the U.N. to come in. I’ve observed elections all over the world, and I think right now we need election observers from all over the world to come and to monitor and to look at these tactics that you just mentioned so that maybe if we put some sunshine on it, you know, at least we’ll be able to cast our vote until we can get all of these laws changed. But I want to say to you, and I say this all the time to especially young people and people of color, believe me, your vote counts.”