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.
EDDIE Bernice Johnson (DEM Fla) should be arrested for Voter Fraud !!! right now, This is Outrageous!!! call her offices, Fax, Email...She sounds like a Seditious trator!!!! The UN is a Corrupt leftist group of Criminals and She is soliciting their Help to steal this election!!!!
Kick this Democrat out of Florida!!!
This is the list a clerk/intern from EB Johnson's office gave me on the phone yesterday.
Johnson, Eddie Bernice, Texas, 30th Democrat
Brown, Corrine, Florida, 3rd Democrat
Carson, Julia, Indiana, 7th Democrat
Crowley, Joseph, New York, 7th Democrat
Davis, Danny K., Illinois, 7th Communist Democrat
Grijalva, Raul, Arizona, 7th Democrat
Honda, Mike, California, 15th Democrat
Maloney, Carolyn, New York, 14th Democrat
Nadler, Jerrold, New York, 8th Democrat
Isn't it interesting that the names aren't printed with the story. It makes me wonder if it was by choice that the supporters of it weren't concerned that it could bring trouble.
It needs to be widely exposed in the national media, along with the names.
I heard once blue helmets make great targets.
"Johnson, Eddie Bernice, Texas, 30th Democrat
Brown, Corrine, Florida, 3rd Democrat
Carson, Julia, Indiana, 7th Democrat
Crowley, Joseph, New York, 7th Democrat
Davis, Danny K., Illinois, 7th Communist Democrat
Grijalva, Raul, Arizona, 7th Democrat
Honda, Mike, California, 15th Democrat
Maloney, Carolyn, New York, 14th Democrat
Nadler, Jerrold, New York, 8th Democrat"
Okay ... add Elijah Cummings ... Maryland, and Edolphus Towns ... New York, and you have the rest.
Did you notice there wasn't any uproar by their compadres? Not a peep from Congress or the Senate. I didn't expect one from the WH.
>>Recalling the long, drawn out process in the southern state, nine lawmakers<<
Ahem .... see posts #9 ... #25 ... #43, and # 46
Caucus night here in Michigan exposed serious problems at the democratic polls. To date nothing has been done to correct the problems found. Thats no mistake.
Printed in the papers news stories etc. someone had to seek the names.
>>The proposal is beyond the absurd!!!!<<
How can you say this? These people are not supporters of the US Constitution. They support the UN Charter. It is natural for them to go to the people they feel are their leaders.
Absurd to you and me maybe but not to them. Monday call their offices and ask about it.
commit to memory bump
Keep the stinking UN filth out of my country. I can't tell you what I'd do to the liberal-demokkkRAT 'lawmakers' who initiated this crap; I'd get ZOTTED, for sure.
The UN and Coffee at One (Kofi Annan) should go down and fix Haiti then they can have more projects of higher and more difficult responsibility.
Yes ... I understand we just don't kill traitors like we used to, but another four years of GWB & Co. should drive many of them to suicide, or at the very least they will be in terrible agony. ;)
We don't need no stink'in UN. If there were a way to cross reference voters against all US registered voters (During registration), then any name that is duplicated will be eliminated. Then brought up on charges. (I'm not talking people with the same name here)
I worked as a republican judge in a small county in Texas. There are ways to challenge voters, but that only works in small districts. How can one possibly know everyone in larger ones? Also the Registrar of Voters cannot remove names of known deceased voters without proper channels ( not exactly sure what they are, I believe relatives only).
It's no wonder we have the mess we have.
The Disgusting Amerikans who wish to have the UN involved should move to France!
Excuse me, I don't understand your thought.
Things have been a little tense around here lately so dont think im getting upset with you or anything.
My meaning was that these names don't seem to appear in any of the stories that have come from the media. The names that appear here in Freerepublic are the result of someone going to the congresscritters website and finding them.
Cool?
Look at post #9. At the bottom of the list I stated where it came from, with the page number included. So I have no idea what you are talking about.
St. Petersburg Times, 07/03/04 ... page 11A
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