...enemies foreign and domestic.
Posted on 07/02/2004 9:18:46 AM PDT by redgolum
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Several members of the House of Representatives have requested the United Nations (news - web sites) to send observers to monitor the November 2 US presidential election to avoid a contentious vote like in 2000, when the outcome was decided by Florida.
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Recalling the long, drawn out process in the southern state, nine lawmakers, including four blacks and one Hispanic, sent a letter Thursday to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) asking that the international body "ensure free and fair elections in America," according to a statement issued by Florida representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, who spearheaded the effort.
"As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election," she said in the letter.
"This is the first step in making sure that history does not repeat itself," she added after requesting that the UN "deploy election observers across the United States" to monitor the November, 2004 election.
The lawmakers said in the letter that in a report released in June 2001, the US Commission on Civil Rights "found that the electoral process in Florida resulted in the denial of the right to vote for countless persons."
The bipartisan commission, they stressed, determined "that the 'disenfranchisement of Florida's voters fell most harshly on the shoulders of black voters' and in poor counties." Both groups vote predominantly Democratic in US elections.
The commission also concluded, the lawmakers added, that "despite promised nationwide reforms (of the voting system) ... adequate steps have not been taken to ensure that a similar situation will not arise in 2004 that arose in 2000."
Thirty-six days after the November 7, 2000 presidential election, after several state court interventions and vote recounts in numerous Florida counties, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Republican George W. Bush, awarding him all of Florida's 25 electoral votes.
The ruling tipped the balance against Democratic contender and then vice president Al Gore (news - web sites), who with 267 electoral votes lost to Bush's 271, only one more than the minimum 270 needed to clinch the presidential election.
Although I wonder, if the election goes like it did in 2000, what would keep the Dems from requesting UN "intervention"?
WHAT!!!!!!????? What is happening to our country????
Hasn't this claim been pretty thoroughly debunked, or laid at the feet of an incompotent election manager in one county who happens to also be Black?
The fact that a large number of Americans would consider the "interveners" an invading army, and would take appropriate action.
The Dims like to ignore it, but they are keenly aware of the Second Amendment and what it means. It's why they want so dearly to gut it.
In any case, if this DID happen, the Dims would lose at least half the states, forever.
These people are damned traitors for even suggesting we need UN in on our elections. Obviously they still believe the Florida vote was contaminated even after 5 different counts. They are traitorous scum, and ignorant buttheads. Not fit to be representatives in the Congress, name the names, we need to know all the scum that signed this from both parties.
Are UN troops even allowed within the borders of the USA?
Couldn't I consider this an invading force?
I'm being serious, can anyone cite FACTS about this?
Thanks,
BITS
INCREDIBLE!!!!!!
May it never be!!
Not the un, PLEASE!
Next it will be blue berets running around the streets in APCs!
</tinfoil beanie>
Who the heck are these Representatives - we need to make it public who they are so it can be shown that they do not respect or understand our system of government and therefore should not represent ANYONE ever again in the future. That is disgusting!
The Civil rights commission what a joke..
Well, if they show up wearing Blue helmets, it could get a little ummm "messy"...
Who are these nine lawmakers??
ROTFL....now that is funny. Bipartisan. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Maybe there will be a defenestration of the blue helmets..
This is hysterical. Gee observers from such bastions of Democracy like Libya, Haiti, Belorus and Indonesia could "advise" the US on fair elections....
Hey, set the table. The frog's almost cooked and ready to eat!
Not only "can" you, you "should".
The day I see foreign troops on American soil is the day I go "deal with some problems"
Cool! < Sound of Breaking Glass > AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHH-THUD
Actually, the Supreme Court did not award any electral votes to anyone. The Supreme Court just held that the process the Florida Supreme Court came up with was not the one authorized by law, and the laws in place at the time of the election had to be adhered to.
Isn't she afraid that some people might think the Blue Helmets are an invading army and treat them accordingly? These Black Caucus Rats appear to have hit rock bottom and started digging.
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