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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy wife's words: "It is a pretty sad state of affairs when you are a citizen of the United States
and you are wondering if the citizens should beg the U.N. to come in a monitor our election this year.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)I don't trust them in any way, shape, form or fashion.
Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)Seriously.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)We hold them by the money balls.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)They think the UN is trying to take over the world.
tblue
(16,350 posts)is that the UN won't. We aren't allowed such a luxury because we are just too exceptional.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)and the Voter ID peeps, (read Voter Suppressors) are whining bloody murder.
Sure makes you wonder, what do they have to hide?
International monitors at US polling spots draw criticism from voter fraud groups
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/263141-international-monitors-at-polling-places-draw-criticism-from-voter-fraud-group
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)Excerpt from your article:
"The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a United Nations partner on democratization and human rights projects, will deploy 44 observers from its human rights office around the country on Election Day to monitor an array of activities, including potential disputes at polling places. It's part of a broader observation mission that will send out an additional 80 to 90 members of parliament from nearly 30 countries."
To the NAACP and other groups who pressed for this Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)if the OSCE is affiliated with the UN?
If not, I should probably make a few edits here and there.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)marions ghost
(19,841 posts)"a United Nations partner."
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)tavalon
(27,985 posts)and he's seen it here just as bad as the dictatorial third world contries
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)and make LOTS of noise about it, using his own experiences
keeping democracy honest around the world for decades.
Palast has counted at least NINE, yes NINE different ways
the GOP is cheating this time around. WAY more comprehensive
and sweeping than 2000 and 2004. They've refined election
fraud to a ruinous corrosive science.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)nxylas
(6,440 posts)Just the headline and the comments thread, which, inevitably, is filled with comments from sub-literate white trash about how teh nigerz is gonna riot if Obama loses and how he only won because of those two Panthers in Philly.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)The 5th & 6th paragraphs, to be precise.
The request for foreign monitoring of election sites drew a strong rebuke from Catherine Engelbrecht, founder and president of True the Vote, a conservative-leaning group seeking to crack down on election fraud.
These activist groups sought assistance not from American sources, but from the United Nations, she said in a statement to The Hill. The United Nations has no jurisdiction over American elections.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)Mark my words
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)Saw it on my FaceBook:
http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e6jdxdl5h8kwghgy/a031lvoh8m5kcgt/questions
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)of perverse proportions. I'm speechless.
How the GOP can do this with a straight face is beyond me.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)txdemsftw
(461 posts)DJ13
(23,671 posts)Its pretty obvious that election and every national election since has had irregularities that wouldnt be out of place in any third world country.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)but can't make sure it happens at home..
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)arrogant bloody nation, the US.
Wounded Bear
(58,728 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)2004 saw a lot of problems, so did 2008, and let's not go into AZ just this year.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Such as shameful, UN-American, anti-democratic, fascist, et. al.
Especially since we specialize in using the most powerful military force ever assembled in the
history of humankind, to bully other nations into doing our bidding ... all under the banner
of ... you guessed it ... "spreading democracy".
Cha
(297,774 posts)It's what the goPropaganda party has been doing since their Coup in 2000.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Am I not right?
Our voting is effed up!
Blue Meany
(1,947 posts)observe the election. I don't remember that he specified what the issues were.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)them in 2004 and that was the reply.
GetTheRightVote
(5,287 posts)just in case the repubs try to steal another election.
Smickey
(3,340 posts)spaulettea
(12 posts)And then there's voter suppression. Yet we supposedly live in a democracy? I'm still reeling from election 2000.
Uncle Joe
(58,446 posts)Thanks for the thread, diabeticman.
DFW
(54,447 posts)If it were up to Karl Rove, the heads of the Federal Election Commission would be Mahmoud AhmadiNejad and Robert Mugabe.
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)makes me very, very uneasy. I keep remembering 2004-- it's something I'll remember the rest of my life. It was terrible and there wasn't a damn thing that could be done about it.
DFW
(54,447 posts)One of most chilling moments in American electoral history because it was so blatant and so true.
Pakid
(478 posts)The Republican has become so twisted and evil that they make Satan seem like a nice guy!
TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)We should have had the UN here to stop the widespread RW fraud we knew was coming after living through the the 2000 (s)election.
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)At least it's out in the open and people now believe that voter fraud is a reality and that it's a major threat to democracy. I think a lot of people (not DUers) were in denial for quite awhile but there was too much evidence to the contrary. Now they know better.
War Horse
(931 posts)The RWNJs are fetching their fainting couches over that one. As has been correctly stated above, it's most certainly a UN partner - created during the freaking Cold War.
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1985/73085b.htm
http://www.osce.org/who