Folks, we have had monitors in our election process as organized labor has manipulated the system at a minimum and many places commited outright fraud for nearly a century.
Actually I would have more trust in international monitors than a bunch union hacks.
I think the Bush folks actually were quite perceptive with this move....The Dem's have already indicated they are going to "lawyer" this election. Some of their thunder may be stolen with international monitors in play.
I had someone tell me the "amusing" story of how as a NYC union employee, durring the elections, him and his fellow workers were required to pick-up the lever-type voting machines (when they still used them) and deliver them to the place where the votes placed in them could be counted.
The trucks could hold multiple machines and him and his fellow employees were "afraid they might tipover".They also drove VERY SLOWLY AND CAREFULLY as they delivered the machines to the place where they would be tallied.
So to avoid any "damage" durring transit,EVERY machine had at least ONE OR MORE people per machine in the back of the truck, to make sure the machines got there safely.
He said by the time they dropped off the voting machines at their destination to be counted,the folks who rode in the back "securing" the machines could be counted on to complain
of "sore arms" for a few days afterwards from pulling the voting handles as many times as they could while in transit.