Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
Editorials & Other Articles
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe need to call for UN oversight
Of the upcoming election. We need independent monitors, like Turkmenistan or Belarus.
Who should make that call?
5 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
We need to call for UN oversight (Original Post)
Danmel
Aug 2020
OP
Walleye
(44,063 posts)1. Yes I was thinking the same thing
mtngirl47
(1,224 posts)2. Let's ask The Carter Center to get involved!
Advancing Democracy is one of their goals.
Tucker08087
(622 posts)3. I looked it up and found this...
https://www.change.org/p/u-s-citizens-officially-request-emergency-electoral-assistance-from-the-united-nations
The link above takes you to change.org to sign a petition for citizens who are requesting election oversight. There is also a place to donate to change.org but the donation is not necessary to sign the petition.
The link above takes you to change.org to sign a petition for citizens who are requesting election oversight. There is also a place to donate to change.org but the donation is not necessary to sign the petition.
Grasswire2
(13,849 posts)4. United Nations no longer provides monitoring.
I asked this question three years ago.
No such service.
The Carter Center does do election monitoring, but it's damned late to ask them to get involved.
2000, 2004, and 2016 elections were stolen via hacking of transmission of tallied votes.
Karl Rove is working for Trump now.
Straw Man
(6,934 posts)5. Not a good idea.
It gives fuel to the "international elites" narrative of the booboisie.
