We need the UN to monitor our elections (USA)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[alexisfree]

Have you seen the injustice going on in Florida today???? Elderly, black people being harrassed.

plus what t.....f* is this??

RNC Attacks Rock the Vote
RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie sent a letter to Rock the Vote yesterday telling them they "have an obligation to immediately cease and desist from promoting or conducting your 'Draft' campaign." This campaign to have people send "draft cards" to their friends was done in partnership with Alliance for Security. The aim of the campaign is to alert young voters that the US military is stretched to the breaking point and that the candidates need to tell Americans what they are going to do about it. Young Americans and their families deserve answers. Both candidates have laid out some of their plans in the last two debates, but we're still lacking some critical answers.

[spooky3]

1. according to a thread on this earlier in DU, the head of RTV told Ed

to go Cheney himself.

[reorg]

2. do not fear, help is on the way

Last Updated: Friday, 24 September, 2004, 18:39 GMT 19:39 UK
The machinery of an anxious democracy
By Clare Murphy
BBC News Online

November's presidential elections will be truly historic.

For the first time, representatives from the OSCE - the European body which has traditionally monitored elections in fledgling democracies - will observe as Americans elect their president.

There have certainly been objections to the involvement of foreign monitors in the domestic affairs of a country which sees itself as a beacon of democracy.

But the Florida fiasco of 2000 with its hanging chads and voter purges has shaken confidence in the sanctity of the system, producing in the words of one observer, a climate of "unease, distrust and scepticism".

New technology brought in to replace the old - polls suggest - is as mistrusted as that which it has replaced, and anxiety abounds in the media over every conceivable aspect of the vote.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3666898.stm


European monitoring group to observe U.S. election
Thomas Crampton NYT

WASHINGTON The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has begun deploying 160 people across the United States to scrutinize the presidential election Nov. 2.
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The international monitoring comes after the highly disputed presidential election four years ago that took 36 days and a Supreme Court decision to decide. Problems cited in 2000 included those with voting procedures, equipment and registration methods.
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As a member of the European security organization, the United States has routinely invited it to monitor American elections, and the State Department did again this year in a June 9 letter. This time, the Poland-based group accepted the invitation, but the acceptance has not proved entirely welcome.
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"You are seeing a step toward subordination of the American political and legal system into a global government," said Representative Jeff Miller, a Florida Republican. "I hope those people just get on the next plane out of the United States to go monitor an election somewhere else, like Afghanistan."

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The monitors - none of whom can be American citizens - are drawn from more than 20 of the institution's 55 member states and include 100 Foreign Ministry officials as well as members of parliaments from Kazakhstan, Byelorussia, Russia and Romania.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/542934.html


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