Posted on 10/12/2004 8:59:45 AM PDT by Helms
7 U.S. Groups Ask U.N. for Vote Observers
Mon Oct 11, 9:41 PM ET
By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS - Seven American activist groups asked the United Nations (news - web sites) 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 (news - web sites) 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 and Social Council, known as ECOSOC, after U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) turned down a request for international observers from 13 members of Congress, led by Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Tex. Annan said the U.N. needed an invitation from the U.S. government, not Congress.
Ross claimed that while governments need to go through the U.N. General Assembly, non-governmental organizations could request observers through ECOSOC. If its 54 elected member nations approve, the ECOSOC president could then ask Annan to send observers, she said.
The United States would have to grant permission to any observers that the ECOSOC wanted to send.
The petition "strongly supports" the presence of observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation (news - web sites) in Europe, a 55-nation security group invited by the Bush administration to monitor the election. Bush faces Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites).
But the seven groups say it's not clear that the European observers will have the force of international law behind them since they are invited guests.
Other organizations signing the petition include the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, based in Philadelphia; the National Welfare Rights Union and the Michigan Welfare Rights Union, based in Detroit; the Independent Progressive Politics Network, headquartered in Bloomfield, N.J.; Seacoast Peace Response, based in Portsmouth, N.H.; and the North Shore Massachusetts chapter of the Alliance for Democracy.
Some of those groups are connected here:
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ARE THE DUMS GETTING READY TO HAVE OUR ELECTION CALLED NULL AND VOID BY THE U.N.?
Let them stand in front of my polling place, wearing blue UN helmets. Let them dare.
Or Kerry is trying to find an army to support him after he steals the election?
Under John Ketchup Kerry as PRez, this UN watchdog over the elections will become a reality. This is what is called the "global test" Having the U.N overlook and run the U.S.
Thats why he was fast to define "global test".
What is really scarey is that the "polls" being what they are, would Americans become engaged.
Who are these people?
Personally, I think that international voter watch groups should come in and monitor the elections in Berkley, San Francisco, Chicago, and a few other cities known for vote fraud.
Protesters at Kofi's address at Harvard Commencement address in June.
This combined with the UN looking at our Elections as well as the polling of the world on our Election shows that there is an undercurrent of Transnational Progressives working against soverignty.
To me it is the domestic war we are raging and if Kerry gets into office they will be emboldened.
I hope they wear the blue helmets.
Times are really perilous
Littlegreenfootballs has an article in it about this subject. U.N. cannot observe our elections...."Moonbats Vexed". Good read.
Don't use that green for your font, it's abolutely horrible on the eyes.
Thank you.
Couldn't agree more !!!
You know, thinking about this, I think that we need the U.N. to impose sanctions on the U.S. It's clear that there is a tyrannical dictatorship - besides the U.N. will soon bring in some form of monitered export system (like the wonderful Iraqi Oil for Food) which would allow those exports necessary. < /idiotic liberal thoughts >
do you have a link?
do you have a link?
found it
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