http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/observers/ en-us Thu, 4 Sep 2008 04:55:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074267/posts Sarah Palin had two jobs to do when she stepped to the podium Wednesday night in St. Paul to accept the Republican nomination for vice president. Her first task was to energize the party's conservative base. On that count: Mission accomplished. "It was dynamite," said Linda Ruff of Halifax. "She knocked it out of the park tonight, without question. That's what she had to do, and she did it." Ruff, first vice chairwoman of the Dauphin County Republican Party, has been involved in GOP politics for more than 20 years. In all those years, she has never seen anyone who... The Patriot-News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074267/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 04:55:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1716407/posts COPEI1 denounces CNE for wanting to bring "mute" international observers Caracas. -- The Secretary General of COPEI, Luis Ignacio Planas, complained strongly that the government, through the National Electoral Council (CNE), wants to bring "mute" international observers for the December presidential elections. "It does not make sense to make an effort, and that we Venezuelans, with our money, should pay the passage and the per diem expenses of the observers so that they come to engage in electoral tourism in Venezuela." The question is "how can they impede the watchers from saying that which they observe in the Venezuelan... El Universal ( Caracas ) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1716407/posts#comment Mon, 9 Oct 2006 20:03:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691741/posts GAZA CITY: The US proposes deploying international observers at the main cargo crossing between Israel and Gaza to prevent repeated security closures of Gaza's economic lifeline, Palestinian and Israeli officials said yesterday. Both Israel and the Palestinians support the idea. However, Israel would only consider its implementation after the release of an Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hamas-allied militants in June. US officials in Israel had no immediate comment. The Karni crossing has been closed by Israel for long stretches this year following security alerts and attacks by Palestinian militants. Virtually all of Gaza's imports and exports go through Karni. Palestinian... AP via Kuwait Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691741/posts#comment Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:16:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672756/posts KIRYAT SHEMONA, Israel - U.N. observers in southern Lebanon called the Israeli military 10 times during a six-hour period to ask it to halt an airstrike before their observation post was hit, according to details of a preliminary U.N. report on the incident. Four U.N. observers were killed in the bombing Tuesday. During each phone call, an Israeli official promised to halt the bombing, according to a U.N. official who had seen the preliminary report, which was released to The Associated Press on Wednesday. The U.N. observers said the area within half a mile of the post was hit with... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672756/posts#comment Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:11:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549276/posts Anarchy in the Palestinian Authority (PA) spread to the Rafiah border crossing, which was closed Friday morning after European Union (EU) observers fled 100 armed PA policemen who formed a blockade. The gunmen who stormed the compound belong to the unstable ruling Fatah party of PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas. One of their members was killed in a clash Thursday between terrorists. After the compound was stormed, the EU's observers stationed at the crossing quickly fled the scene in panic while the gunmen prevented vehicles from reaching the crossing. The observers are responsible for monitoring the crossing and enforcing the agreement... Arutz 7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549276/posts#comment Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:51:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307651/posts UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Most international experts assessing the fairness of Iraq's elections will monitor the Jan. 30 vote from the safety of neighboring Jordan, but a few observers will head to Baghdad and perhaps other Iraqi cities if security permits, U.N. and other officials said Thursday. Experts putting together the international team made clear it will not conduct the usual on-the-ground election monitoring with hundreds of foreign observers in Iraq such as was recently seen in Afghanistan. Instead, it will be assessing the vote based on more than a dozen different criteria. "We believe we can run a very... Bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307651/posts#comment Fri, 24 Dec 2004 01:58:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1271374/posts Swiss observer says US elections free and fair The Swiss head of the international mission, which monitored the United States presidential election, says the process was for the most part free and fair. In an interview with swissinfo, Barbara Haering said the mission did, however, uncover a few irregularities. Haering led a team of more than 90 observers from 34 states under the auspices of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The team presented their preliminary findings in Washington on Thursday. Haering is a Social Democratic member of the Swiss House of Representatives, and vice-president of the... Swissinfo / Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1271374/posts#comment Fri, 5 Nov 2004 08:56:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1266453/posts MIAMI (AFP) - They have watched elections in the Balkans, in Asia and South Africa, but the complexity of the US presidential election every four years is enough to give a headache to even the most seasones international observer. It is "not one election, but 13,000 elections," said Canadian expert Ron Gould, a member of a delegation from the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Cooperation (news - web sites) in Europe (OSCE (news - web sites)) in Miami for the 2004 US elections after observing some 70 elections around the world. "We like to see the setup, how organized it... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1266453/posts#comment Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:43:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1266047/posts Tom Daschle has already started the ball rolling in the first of an anticipated series of lawsuits charging Republicans with suppressing minority votes. If—OK, when—Democrats claim voter intimidation or other election fraud in the presidential contest today, they will undoubtedly have at their side “independent” international monitors—who happen to be selected and overseen by two rabidly partisan American Democrats. Acting on an invitation from the State Department, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is, according to its own website, sending over 60 observers to seven states, including four of the most hotly contested: Florida, Ohio, Minnesota, and... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1266047/posts#comment Tue, 2 Nov 2004 09:56:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1265628/posts Just announced on fox. Big victory for us!!! fox http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1265628/posts#comment Tue, 2 Nov 2004 01:35:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1265589/posts This cause originated upon the filing of a complaint for a writ of mandamus. Upon consideration of relators’ motion for an emergency peremptory writ of mandamus, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that relators’ motion be, and hereby is, granted, and that a writ of mandamus be, and hereby is, granted to compel respondent Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell to reissue and enforce his October 26, 2004 Directive 2004-45 to all eighty-eight counties insofar as it permits, in accordance with R.C. 3505.21 and 3506.13, one duly designated challenger per precinct and, after the polls close, one duly designated witness per precinct,... The Ohio Supreme Court http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1265589/posts#comment Tue, 2 Nov 2004 01:14:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1264431/posts MIAMI — If they can get in the door, observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will be keeping an outsider's eye on the U.S. voting process Tuesday... ...Under its commitments as an OSCE member, the United States is required to invite the scrutiny. What observers will be able to see, though, is unclear. LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1264431/posts#comment Mon, 1 Nov 2004 05:33:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1264400/posts Allowing foreign election monitors is bad enough, but inviting disgraced former federal judge to pick them is outrageous Delta Democrat Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1264400/posts#comment Mon, 1 Nov 2004 04:42:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1263909/posts South Bend, IN - The South Bend Police Department says it will not maintain a presence inside local schools on Election Day. The police department originally planned on placing officers in schools that would serve as polling places; The schools will be open to the public on Election Day, which is causing concern for some parents. But the election board has asked police not to provide on-site security this Tuesday. South Bend Police say they do not want to interfere with the political process and while they will not be positioned inside schools, they will step up patrols outside polling... www.wndu.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1263909/posts#comment Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:38:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1263742/posts - For every camera crew you see, get two people to film *them*. You cannot bring cameras to polls - will be regarded as INTIMIDATION by the other party - you cannot give them any excuses. Best thing is to get ANOTHER Witness and get a Witness Statement. This is advise from Bush/Cheney LEGAL team. Please make sure you pass this info around. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1263742/posts#comment Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:54:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1262432/posts SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A tribal judge filed an order Friday that, if upheld, may prevent South Dakota Republican Party workers from observing Tuesday's voting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Four Directions Committee, which bills itself as a nonpartisan group trying to increase American Indian voting, was granted the temporary restraining order against the South Dakota Republican Party and Ryan Knutson. Oglala Sioux Tribe Judge Marina Fast Horse signed the order without telling them about it ahead of time. In the document, Four Directions accuses Knutson of intimidating its workers on Wednesday at Pine Ridge by videotaping them... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1262432/posts#comment Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:17:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1262704/posts Oglala order could prevent GOP poll watching on Pine Ridge CARSON WALKER Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A tribal judge filed an order Friday that, if upheld, may prevent South Dakota Republican Party workers from observing Tuesday's voting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Four Directions Committee, which bills itself as a nonpartisan group trying to increase American Indian voting, was granted the temporary restraining order against the South Dakota Republican Party and Ryan Knutson. Oglala Sioux Tribe Judge Marina Fast Horse signed the order without telling them about it ahead of time. In the document, Four Directions... Aberdeen American News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1262704/posts#comment Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:02:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1251615/posts HARRISBURG - Republican officials yesterday accused the Rendell administration of partisan politics for appointing a major Democratic fund-raiser and noted critic of President Bush to help run the state's new election oversight efforts. Philadelphia lawyer Mark Aronchick has raised $100,000 for Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, until recently advised the campaign on election law matters, and earlier this year accused President Bush of having a "contemptible pseudosincerity." Aronchick resigned from all legal representation of the Kerry-Edwards campaign on Sept. 22 The Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1251615/posts#comment Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:53:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1250075/posts TEHRAN: Iran's hardline Basij militia has written to UN secretary general Kofi Annan to ask if the Islamic republic can send observers to the US presidential election in November, a government newspaper said on Monday. "By this symbolic request, we want to ridicule the so-called democratic slogans of the American leaders," a Basij official, Said Toutunshian, told the Iran newspaper. "We want to say to the whole world that the presence of observers from the Islamic republic of Iran, the most democratic regime in the world, is necessary to guarantee the smooth running of the American elections." The Basij is... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1250075/posts#comment Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:00:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1247862/posts PORTSMOUTH - Looking back at the confusion in Florida during the 2000 election, Amy Antonucci said she expected this year’s election to be different. "I would have hoped that 2000 would have been enough of a wake-up call," the Seacoast Peace Response organizer said in an interview this past week. But with just 16 days until Americans go to the polls, Antonucci said reports of incomplete registration records, efforts to disenfranchise voters, and problematic voting machines indicate that this presidential election could be just as, or even more, faulty than four years ago. "(President) Bush was talking last night in... Portsmouth Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1247862/posts#comment Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:06:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1246375/posts This is a partial transcript of an urgent request issued by the Hamilton County, Ohio Republican Party seeking volunteers to function as Poll Observers on November 2 in an effort to prevent vote fraud: "There has been an unprecedented effort to register voters for this year’s Presidential election. In Ohio, tens of thousands of newly registered voters will be going to the polls for the first time. Because of this, the possibility of significant confusion exists. It is likely that many voters in Hamilton County will be confused about where they are supposed to vote. It is for this reason,... Hamilton County Republican Party http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1246375/posts#comment Fri, 15 Oct 2004 20:30:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1245315/posts when the U.S. State Department invited the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor the U.S. election in November, it opened the door for international intrusion into our democratic process. Since the OSCE invitation, the far-left pressure group Global Exchange announced that it too would be disbursing handpicked international observers to monitor polling stations in five key battleground states. "With this third group entering the fray," says DeWeese, "it is clear that the drive to put our nation's electoral process under the purview of some international authority is a serious goal of the left. The president of... internet sources http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1245315/posts#comment Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:31:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1245067/posts Washington,D.C.--The U.S. State Department has opened a Pandora's box by inviting international monitors to oversee our Election Day process, says the American Policy Center (APC). The Center cited news that seven leftist organizations recently petitioned the United Nations to monitor next month's presidential election. . . . . For the entire Canada Free Press news, story click on Leftist Groups Call for U.N. Intervention in U.S. Presidential Election Canada Free Press newspaper http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1245067/posts#comment Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:44:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1242179/posts UNITED NATIONS - Seven American activist groups asked the United Nations on Monday to provide international observers for next month's presidential election. A petition delivered to the U.N. Economic and Social Council said that only the U.N. can "give us recourse to international bodies beyond those within our own national and state governments" in case of a repeat of the problems seen in the 2000 election, which President Bush won after a protracted ballot fight in Florida. Grace Ross of the Economic Human Rights Project, based in Somerville, Mass., said the non-governmental groups decided to seek action from the Economic... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1242179/posts#comment Tue, 12 Oct 2004 02:02:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/1242178/posts Does anyone have information about the Akron Bar Association's organization of Poll "Observers" for Ohio polling places on election day? There was a notice posted at the University of Akron law School a few weeks ago saying such effort was underway sponsored by the "non-partisen" AFL-CIO, League of Women Voters and NAACP? Sounds like trouble to me. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/1242178/posts#comment Tue, 12 Oct 2004 02:00:55 GMT