Europe to monitor American elections

[hunter]

Europe to monitor American elections

By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER

The U.S. State Department has invited elections monitors from a European security outfit to observe U.S. elections in November.

After 13 House members, including Oakland Democrat Barbara Lee, asked the United Nations to send elections observers, they were lambasted by conservative pundits as un-American and worse. The Republican-majority House voted 243-161 to prohibit the U.S. government from backing the request.

It appears nonetheless that another international security body, the 55-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, will be sending a team out of Warsaw to look over the shoulders of U.S. elections officials.

http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86%257E10669%257E2317884,00.html

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Barbara Lee took an incredible amount of abuse on talk radio for her request to the U.N. for election observers, even from the more "centrist" talk show hosts.

I guess we are in for another round...

[tlcandie]

1. So, where exactly will we be able to find these reports after the fact?

And where do we find the previous reports from the 2002 mid-term elections?

[Davis_X_Machina]

4. "Previous reports from the 2002 mid-term elections"

are here, in PDF format.

[tom_paine]

2. Hurrah! The Free World should ALWAYS montior Third-World Elections

Since Imperial Amerika is the richest and most powerful Third World Nation today, it is doubly importanmt that the Free World not allow us to sink as we currently are into the morass of Corrupt Third-World Tyranny.

[iconoclastic cat]

3. We are a freakin' banana republic now, aren't we?

Sheesh.

[havocmom]

5. Are they gonna embargo us if they find evidence the election was

tampered with? Would it be possible for Big Corporations to NOT be able to import the goods made overseas when they exported the jobs? It will be good for them to get used to Americans not being able to buy goods, since they seem to lack enough common sense to figure out minimum wage (or less) workers will not make their sales charts rise.

[Geo55]

6. The U.S. State Department has invited elections monitors ....

Sooo...this would be Powell's little window dressing ?

[KittyWampus]

7. European Security Outfit? Are They Related To Any Carlyle Or Halliburton

subsidiaries?

Give us the names of the outfits doing this NOW so we can run background checks on them.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Yes yes yes...

The fact that they're from a "European" security outfit doesn't mean they aren't fascist sympathizers.

[loudsue]

9. Excellent point, Cryingshame....

Maybe we'd best do a little checking.... DU Research team, are you with us??

:kick::kick::kick:

[RebelYell]

10. Here's their website

http://www.osce.org/general/

Nothing jumps out at me.