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Here’s the line in the sand. Americans can either sit down and do nothing about a planned invasion of foreign election observers or stand for their liberty by saying no. There is no middle ground.The Bush Administration, through Secretary of State Colin Powell, has given into pressure from thirteen far-left Democrat members of the House of Representatives and invited an international group to officially observe the November presidential election. Earlier this year, the thirteen Congressmen, led by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), wrote a letter to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to request UN observers for the 2004 presidential...

International Election Monitoring Group Headed By Impeached U.S. Judge; Group Warns of Election Catastrophe August 25, 2004 Washington, D.C.- The American Policy Center charged on Wednesday that the U.S. State Department has invited scandal, fraud, and corruption to the American electoral process with its decision to bring in foreign election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor the November presidential election. APC, a grassroots activist organization located in suburban Washington, D.C., is alerting Americans to the dangers of inviting an international body to monitor the upcoming presidential election. APC has discovered that the president...

  Election Protection TrainingSeptember 18, 2-5 p.m. Columbia Law School 435 W 116th St. New York City RSVP now: www.ElectionProtectionVolunteer.org/NYC Dear friends, For months we've been hearing from concerned members and friends who want to volunteer where they are needed most on Election Day. At the same time, leaders in the civil rights community have been warning that unless tens of thousands of volunteers stand up and protect voting rights, minority voters will once again face disenfranchisement at the polls due to illegal disqualification, intimidation, and faulty voting machines. Many of us at Working Assets have pledged to travel to...

CNSNews.com) - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced it is sending a team of lawyers and election workers to observe Florida's Aug. 31 primary election -- and to help voters who may have problems trying to cast their ballots. "The NAACP will not allow another 2000 voter fiasco to occur," said NAACP President and CEO Kweisi Mfume. "We will have observers and lawyers on the ground to assist voters and to make sure they are not intimidated. Our goal is to see that all eligible voters register and vote, and that every vote is counted." Mfume...

Hordes of election observers flock to Florida Folks from near, far beat a path to Sunshine State to boost their man, ensure no repeat of 2000. By MONI BASU The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 08/23/04 Come Election Day, Martha Fagan won't be anywhere close to her home in Morningside. She, like thousands of other Americans, will be in the mother of all battlegrounds: Florida. Legions of labor organizers, poll watchers, high-powered lawyers and sneaker-clad volunteers from Maine to California are heading to the Sunshine State. They could be joined by an official election monitoring team from the Organization for Security...

2004 Presidential Election Under the Eye of International Observersby Chris Shugart, 19 Aug, 04When I first learned that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe had been invited to monitor our presidential election this year, I couldn’t believe it. What happened? Was Franz Kafka suddenly appointed President of the United States?I was angry and confused. Who in their right mind would allow the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights meddle in our elections? Didn’t they have something better to do, like maybe monitor elections in, say, Venezuela where their presidential election is, as I speak, being hotly...

U.S. Invites Int'l Observers to Election By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press Writer August 10, 2004, 5:44 PM EDT WARSAW, Poland -- The United States has invited international observers to monitor November's presidential election, U.S. and European officials said Tuesday. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE, said it received the request from the U.S. State Department and would send a team to the United States next month to determine whether to accept the task. The United States is a member of the 55-nation group, which has traditionally focused on monitoring elections in emerging democracies. Adam Ereli, a...

LETS PLAY FOOTBALL! The United States has invited international observers to monitor November's presidential election, U.S. and European officials said Tuesday. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE, said it received the request from the U.S. State Department and would send a team to the United States next month to determine whether to accept the task. Yes, the world cup of election experts is coming to America. They will bring their expertise on democracy and elections to US. Humm, I was just wondering, but when it comes to elections, aren't they the Johnny come lately in this...

U.S. Presidential Election To Be Monitored By International Observers 08.09.2004 2:24 PM EDT For the first time in United States history, a team of international observers will monitor the presidential election, the U.S. State Department has announced. Though traditionally asked to watch over election processes, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the largest regional security organization in the world, has never monitored a U.S. presidential election. Following the U.S. midterm elections in 2002, which the OSCE observed, the organization concluded that the U.S. had fixed many of the problems that plagued the 2000 presidential election, according to...

With all the attention focused on Alan Keyes crashing an election where he doesn’t belong, comparably little has been paid to a potentially far more troubling election participant: international monitors “observing” our November elections. In a news story that could not have been better crafted by The Onion the Bush administration has formally invited the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), of which the U.S. is a member, to observe this fall’s election. Though the OSCE delegation has no authority to do anything substantive, the very idea that international monitors have any business being in the U.S. is...

The State Department's invitation for an Austrian human rights group to monitor this year's U.S. presidential election is a "frightening" development and "an absolute threat" to America's independence and sovereignty, according to the head of a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. Tom DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center, said he's especially angry that the Bush administration would reach out to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which is based in Vienna, Austria. "Bush continues to give conservatives the rhetoric of sovereignty, independence and strength of the United States, and he continues to give the [opposite]...

They're coming to America to make sure our elections are fair and transparent. And, they need your help.This fall, U.N. observers will be coming to the U.S. from countries from Albania to Zimbabwe. They'll be making sure that voting in November's election is completely fair and that all votes are counted. Many observers will be coming thousands of miles and will need your assistance. They will arrive in a new country and will need shelter and food. MoveOut.org is now seeking American citizens who will provide quarters for our friends from abroad and who will make their stay as comfortable...

What is the law in the USA reguarding citizen oberservers? Up here in Canada, any citizen eligable to vote can observe the voting and vote count as long as they arrive before the polls close and do not physically touch the ballots. If the same thing can be done in the USA, then it might be wise try and drum up a bunch of citizen observers to keep an eye on the Dems and international observers.

House Republicans view a recent move by 11 Democrats to have United Nations observers monitor U.S. elections as a politically motivated stunt, and last week they moved to nip the idea in the bud.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A team of international observers will monitor the presidential election in November, according to the U.S. State Department. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe was invited to monitor the election by the State Department. The observers will come from the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. It will be the first time such a team has been present for a U.S. presidential election. "The U.S. is obliged to invite us, as all OSCE countries should," spokeswoman Urdur Gunnarsdottir said. "It's not legally binding, but it's a political commitment. They signed a document 10...

WASHINGTON – When 13 Democratic members of the U.S. Congress asked United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to send election monitors to the U.S. this fall, the move outraged many Republicans and other proponents of national sovereignty. When those same 13 Democratic members of Congress were turned down by Annan, they took their request to Secretary of State Colin Powell – again to the shock of many Republicans and those who warn about foreign entanglements. Yesterday, those 13 Democratic House members got their surprising answer from the State Department – the administration will indeed invite foreign election monitors to observe the...

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."

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...

BOSTON - Michael Moore pledged on Wednesday to take a film crew to Florida on voting day in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the contested presidential election of 2000. "I am committed. I am coming to Florida," Moore was reported as saying in south Florida's Sun-Sentinel newspaper. "Together we will guarantee to every Floridian that their vote will be counted this year," he added before a cheering crowd of delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Moore's latest film, the wildly popular documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, takes U.S. President George W. Bush to task for the invasion of...

It's not known if he'll call his next movie "Florida 9/11," but filmmaker Michael Moore is vowing to be an election monitor in the Sunshine State this November. "I am coming to Florida," the director of "Fahrenheit 9/11" promised Florida's delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Boston. "Together we will guarantee to every Floridian that their vote will be counted this year." "I will have my cameras. We will put a huge spotlight on them. They will not get away with it this time." The director claims the 2000 vote count was tainted despite numerous recounts in Democrat-supervised counties...