Posted on 10/24/2008 4:06:52 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
Stung by international criticism of its presidential and congressional elections, Russia is striking back by sending a team of observers to monitor the U. S. presidential poll on Nov. 4.
Andrei Nesterenko, a spokesman with Russia's Foreign Ministry, says Moscow will have eight election observers attached to a monitoring mission conducted by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
The OSCE, which has infuriated the Kremlin in the past by criticizing elections in Russia and other post-communist states, is sending 62 election observers to the United States.
The mission, headed by Audrey Glover, the top British diplomat, includes a core of 13 international experts from the OSCE's office in Washington and 48 international observers who will be deployed in teams of two around the country.
In addition to visiting polling stations on Nov. 4, they will study the election campaign, media coverage and issues of voter registration, identification and voters rights.
Russia's Central Elections Committee has also assigned its Centre for the Study of Election Technology to review the U. S. election campaign.
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Lol. Not so ‘hidden’
Russian?
...What...No Iranians???
Send them to inner city Los Angeles, St Louis, and Detroit.
That should open their eyes. Oh—and Las Vegas, where 740,000 registration cards were examined and 715,000 were found to be rotten ACORN’s.
Here is the link to the documents regarding the Russians.
http://www.osce.org/odihr/item_12_34038.html
As a added note the preliminary assessment report is also on the website. You should note that the attorney that represented CAIR against Robert Spencer represented the DNC at the meetings with the OSCE in June 2008. I believe it is on page 16.
It also concerns me that foreign nationals may speak with voters and the judges inside the polling place. The American voters are not permitted this luxury. The state of Missouri allows foreign observers in the polling place. You should check your state’s laws at your Secretary of States office.
First damned Soviet that speaks around my polling station is going to get hit in the mouth. I hate communists. All communists, both foreign and DOMESTIC!
Also, there are also 10 observers from Kazakhstan. According to the CIA factbook the country 47% Muslim.
yeah, but at the end of the day, the rest of the world can bite my ass.
Not in my f’n poll they’re not:
“Because only Ohio electors may observe Ohio elections, no elector of another state may serve as an observer in Ohio.”
“In addition to visiting polling stations on Nov. 4, they will study the election campaign, media coverage and issues of voter registration, identification and voters rights.”
I cannot believe our country is allowing a group of socialists to come in and monitor our elections...pathetic.
Oh, and I’m sure the socialists will comment on the negative media coverage of the Republican and the biased coverage for the Socialist Obama lmao.
I’m sure they will end up at the stage in Chicago.
The observers have been here since early October.
They have been monitoring the media, election preparations, etc.
After the election they will issue a report. Under the treaty we signed (I can’t remember the date) we are subject to their recommendations.
You don’t cotton to communists? What about the ballot itself?
I’m keeping a collection of these types of images stored safely in an easily hidden thumb drive. I truly believe that within a year of The One’s ascension (should it happen) that it will be illegal to post such “hate”. I shall endeavor to keep the “hate” alive until such time that I receive my orders to report to the nearest ‘re-education camp’.
So what? 7/8th of the world is “monitoring” the vote via new media.
JoMa
No, send them to Detroit!
This is not new.
President Lyndon Johnson proposed the same idea around 1965. Supposedly the Soviet observers would be so impressed by the workings of American democracy that somehow the seeds of popular representation might make their way into the Workers’ Paradise itself.
A cartoon at the time showed two laughing Russians:
“Is inviting us to sending observers to American national elections!”
“Can observers remaining to witness confessions and executions of losers!?”
8 Communists monitoring a nation of 100million voters. Right.
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