Posted on 08/07/2004 12:52:24 AM PDT by kattracks
The Bush administration has invited a team of international monitors to observe the U.S. presidential election in November, but the group will not come from the United Nations, as some congressional Democrats had urged.
Assistant Secretary of State Paul V. Kelly, who handles legislative affairs for the department, affirmed the invitation this week in a letter to 13 House Democrats. They had requested U.N. monitors for this year's elections in an effort to avoid the charges of disenfranchisement and voting irregularities that plagued the 2000 election, the closest in history.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the largest regional organization in the world with 55 participating nations, will monitor the U.S. election on Nov. 2. Members include Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Spain and the United States.
"OSCE members, including the United States, agreed in 1990 in Copenhagen to allow fellow members to observe elections in one another's countries," Mr. Kelly wrote. "Consistent with this commitment, the United States has already invited the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to observe the November 2, 2004, presidential elections."
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OSCE officials deployed an observer team to monitor the most recent U.S. elections, on Nov. 5, 2002.
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OK, that is just stupid. You know if Kerry loses these euro-peons are going to say it was not a free and fair election.
Will the Europeans have any criticism if Indians all across S. Dakota rise up from the dead and re-elect Tommy Daschle?
Bring in an observer for every polling place in America. We have nothing to hide.
They may be sorry they asked in the first place.
Well the Democrats do. thats why they hired 6,000 lawyers.
I don't know if the euro-peons would see anything out of the ordinary in the dead voting in large numbers. /sarcasm
When those Dems first started asking the UN to monitor our election, I naturally considered it a stupid idea -- that would be as bad as asking the DNC to monitor. Wouldn't bother me much to have, say, Mossad do the monitoring. ;-)
we can hope.
So we have had a Repulican congress and a Republican president and all have been aware of election fraud. This is the best they can do?????
I have one simple solution that would cure 90% of the fraud. If everyone carried a camera and took pictures this would cure most of the fraud.
I just can't see how people would think Bush would disenfranchise blacks like they say Clinton's administration did. /sarcasm
The best thing that happened after 2000 was for Mary Francis Berry and her band of idiots to show up in Florida. They found nothing. Light is the best disinfectant.
Without a shred of evidence. They even asked Bush about those disenfranchised voters today at the 'Journalists of Color' meeting.
I hope as many OSCE reps as possible show up. I also hope they spend a lot of their money while they are here.
They found nothing but the Democrats have made a majority of blacks believe that a million of their people were stopped from voting.
Of course they found nothing, there was nothing to find, but the lamestream media didn't do much to publicize that fact. Where are people supposed to get that info, if not from a "free press"?
One of the biggest problems we have in this country is the "mainstream' media and their bias.
Oh come on. We both know the US taxpayer is going to be paying for their trip and expenses.
They never asked why the Clinton administration or those Democrat-run counties in Florida would do such a thing.
I hope you're wrong. I fear you're right.
If the allegations were true the front-page of every newspaper in the country and special reports on TV would show interviews with those million disenfranchised people. They would have done it every day until Gore was installed or Bush was impeached.
They were invited by the US administration weren't they??
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