Jerold Nadler
Edolphus Towns
Carolyn Maloney
Joseph Crowely
Mechista Grijalva
Corinne Brown
Elijah Cummings
Danny Davis
Michael Honda
Julia Carson
Posted on 07/03/2004 4:33:33 AM PDT by eartotheground
Fri Jul 2, 2:22 AM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Several members of the House of Representatives have requested the United Nations to send observers to monitor the November 2 US presidential election to avoid a contentious vote like in 2000, when the outcome was decided by Florida.
Recalling the long, drawn out process in the southern state, nine lawmakers, including four blacks and one Hispanic, sent a letter Thursday to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) asking that the international body "ensure free and fair elections in America," according to a statement issued by Florida representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, who spearheaded the effort.
"As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election," she said in the letter.
"This is the first step in making sure that history does not repeat itself," she added after requesting that the UN "deploy election observers across the United States" to monitor the November, 2004 election.
The lawmakers said in the letter that in a report released in June 2001, the US Commission on Civil Rights "found that the electoral process in Florida resulted in the denial of the right to vote for countless persons."
The bipartisan commission, they stressed, determined "that the 'disenfranchisement of Florida's voters fell most harshly on the shoulders of black voters' and in poor counties." Both groups vote predominantly Democratic in US elections.
The commission also concluded, the lawmakers added, that "despite promised nationwide reforms (of the voting system) ... adequate steps have not been taken to ensure that a similar situation will not arise in 2004 that arose in 2000."
Thirty-six days after the November 7, 2000 presidential election, after several state court interventions and vote recounts in numerous Florida counties, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Republican George W. Bush, awarding him all of Florida's 25 electoral votes.
The ruling tipped the balance against Democratic contender and then vice president Al Gore (news - web sites), who with 267 electoral votes lost to Bush's 271, only one more than the minimum 270 needed to clinch the presidential election.
A line-up yes..
serial congenital RATs
It's a disgrace for a U.S. lawmaker to think the U.N. can do a better job of supervising the elections. I'd rather have the Democrats down in Palm Beach County than the U.N.
Yes it is. They are desperate. Their lying, cheating, whining and recounting did not work in 2000. They must have not gotten enough votes from dead people. Even denying the military vote didn't work. Yes, they are desperate. These people, as far as I am concerned, are guilty of treason. Or, at least, they should be sent back home and replaced with people who respect their country and the election process. Considering they are legislators, they show a sad disregard for our American sovereignty and lack basic knowledge of our Constitution. In a word, they are DUMB! They do not belong in Congress.
See #9.
"Hey, this guy has as much right to vote as anyone else in here." (in the graveyard)
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That's about it. Wait until the ACLU files suit, that just because someone dies, doesn't mean, their voting rights should be taken away.
Jimmy Carter will go to Florida...
LET ME GET THIS RIGHT . . .
The
!!!!!!UN!!!!!!
is for a global government of socialism/communism/satanism
and, as recent news stories have touched on the tip of the iceberg, the UN is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
FULL of integrity--!!!!!!!!!!!NOT!!!!!!!!!!!
yet
our idiot congress critters
are insanely asking for the
UNintegrity critters devoted to a global government
check our election to
BE SURE
that KOMMIE KERRY also devoted to a global socialist government
gets enough votes?????
I see.
How could you think this! They would do a wonderful job. They ran the Food for Oil program didn't they ? < /scarasm>
I am surprised all these New York Congresscritters(Traitors) couldnt talk Hitlery and Chucky Cheese go along with them in this insanity.
Quoting the Civil Rights Commission is funny, Is the bigot Mary Frances Berry still running it?
Where is the rest of the CBC how come Maxine and Rangel didnt sign onto this insult to America?
Wake up folks if the Dems win this year America as we know and love it is dead.
No, I haven't seen anyone else be named. Johnson is a black democrat from Dallas. I'm waiting to see if Shelia I'm-above-the-little-people Jackson-Lee (black Rat from Houston) might be mentioned in conection with this slap against America. Those two slimes need to be run outta Texas on a rail.
Would this amount to foreign troops enforcing inside US Borders?
Grijalva chooses to side with a Mexican activist group (Derechos Humanos) rather than ask why "his countrymen" fear for their property and lives from illegal aliens.
Grijalva views himself as a defender of Mexico and other foreign illegal aliens. Is he also a supporter of La Raza, the militant Mexican activist group that would overthrow the state governments of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas in favor of the Republic of Mexico.
5.56mm
This all stems from the Liberal mindset that there must be someone to pass the buck too. Instead of ensuring that our laws prevent fraud and punish an offender.
The same US Commission on Civil Rights which, led by its dictatorial "Chairperson," Mary Francis Berry, denied dissenting Commissioners their opportunity to express their dissent and refused to seat a member legitimately appointed by President Bush.
As for the "countless persons" denied the right to vote, they were "countless" because no one could find any to count.
The Court did nothing of the sort. President Bush having won the popular vote count in Florida, the Florida Electors met in the State capital in December and cast their electoral votes. The Supreme Court did not "award" those votes to Mr. Bush.
Thanks for the pictures. Domestic Enemies.
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