Posted on 07/02/2004 9:18:46 AM PDT by redgolum
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Several members of the House of Representatives have requested the United Nations (news - web sites) 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.
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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.
"Are UN troops even allowed within the borders of the USA?"
The "Biospehere Zones" established here in the U.S. might be a place. Do a Google search, it is informative to find out how we have incrementally begun to give up our sovereignty.
But how many polling places are there in the Biosphere Zones? I'm betting none.
Who do I complain to about the attempted intimidation at the polls perpetrated by the UN?
Nothing like the smell of mapalm in the morning...;-)
This didn't mention troops....just an army of Jimmy Carters.
Carolyn
Rambo.
That's even worse...
Jacque Chiraq?
So, they ask the most corrupt organization in the world to monitor our elections?
Sure, that makes sense.
Those who suggested this should be charged with treason or something similar. Inviting an invading army into our Country should be punishable by death.
treasonous. the left is out of control.
I'm guessing that this is the only way that the Dems figure they could win... if the "monitors" are on their side, they will find no "fraud" if the 'rats win... They will only find it if WE win...
Diversity is our strength.
Kofi doesn't want a repeat because he wants the Dems to win. Clinton will take over his job as head of the UN, and Kofi can enjoy the millions he stole from the Iraqi people in the oil scandal.
I am so frickin mad I cant think straight, For me to think that we have people like this making our laws. That people like this got elected more than likely from Gerrymandered districts. I cannot imagoine that any citizen of the United States would allow our elections to be judged by foreigners. This BS about the Florida election results isnt funny any more its getting damned serious and its about fighting time now. US legislators who do this arent Americans,and need to be removed.
I see a blue helmet, blue beret or a blue cap, and it's open season on those jerks.
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