Days after being accused of taking over a polling place and electioneering on behalf of President Obama, NAACP Houston officials said the organization would continue "doing our job" to protect voter rights.

"It's a shame that the NAACP Houston Branch and its volunteers are being attacked by a right-wing extremist group for being 'Good Samaritans,'" Carroll G. Robinson, chairman of the NAACP Houston Branch Political Affairs Committee, stated Tuesday in a media release. "The NAACP will continue to help elderly and disabled voters, as well as all other voters, exercise their right to vote."

The skirmish began last week when Eve Rockford, an election monitor with True the Vote, a Tea Party-affiliated vote-monitoring group, accused the NAACP of taking over the Harris County Precinct 139 polling location at 6719 W. Montgomery Road in the Acres Homes community.

In a written statement, Rockford said that NAACP officials handed out bottled water to early voters standing in line, hand picked people to move to the front of the line, and were "stirring up the crowd" to vote for Obama.

"The NAACP basically ran this poll location, and the (election) judges did nothing about it," Rockford's statement reads.

Harris County Clerk Stan Stanart could not immediately be reached for comment on Tuesday.

Logan Churchwell, a spokesman for True the Vote, praised Stanart for investigating the alleged violations by the NAACP.

"His (Stanart's) swift decision to investigate allegations of trespassing beyond marked boundaries at the polls demonstrates an utmost respect for the rule of law," Churchwell said in a statement. "We believe Stanart's actions have offered considerable relief to concerned Harris County voters."

NAACP officials denied that they breached any laws by assisting elderly and disabled voters at the poll "by standing in line for them or asking younger people in line to let the elderly and disabled go ahead of them in the line to vote," according to the NAACP press release.

"True the Vote's attack on the NAACP Houston Branch are validation of the effectiveness of the branch's efforts," the Rev. Reginald Lillie, president of NAACP Houston, stated in the media release. "The attacks are a badge of honor. They motivate us to keep pressing on."

Robinson echoed his sentiments.

"The NAACP is not afraid of being attacked by an extremist Tea Party group for doing our job - helping to protect the right to vote and ensuring that when people show up at the polls, they get to vote," he stated.

Reporter Susan Carroll contributed to this repor