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.
When was the balance ever in favor of Al Gore? Another media slant of history.
Not that there's much doubt.
I just tend to watch when an article says "some", "a few", "several", "critics" etc. Weasel Words.
BM
Wouldn't a more accurate headline for this nonsense be, "Nutball Democrats want UN to intervene in American elections if they don't win."
Even if they do try to come, it won't matter squat. They have no authority.
I know some of you might want to vote for some other party.
But things like this make for a very restless day for me.
These Dims need to be voted out of our Government.
This makes me want to spit!
My husband would say to me..........
Honey, that doesn't sound like you! Sorry!
LP
VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Translation: We want overseas ballots to be disqualified and felons be allowed to vote.
Did that happen? I just moved to the QC, and would like to know more about that.
On a side note, I forgot just how far eastern Iowa has slid down that slippery slope.
If you can change it to Breaking News I would appreciate it.
Trying to confirm the story.
Hell, the meat is falling off the bones!
Hell, the meat is falling off the bones!
Yep, but who's paying attention? As T.S. Eliot wrote:
"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper..."
Not wwhat they had in mind, I'm sure.
Wow - you guys get tinfoil hats?
We have to gather discarded gum wrappers and make our own. Got to go the voices are here again.
:)
The UN has been in America on American soil without any rights afforded us for years. Kentucky is the sate I believe and there are more.
The UN is no stranger to US soil as a soverign foreign authority.
Sorry to be the one with the bad news.
Riceski
Next it will be blue berets running around the streets in APCs!
Moving targets.
The United States is a sovereign nation... the U.N. has no place in our electoral process.
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