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.
No. However, I am currently working on an article that demostrates that the Government has no authority to cede Article III judicial power to foreign bodies via treaty or resolution.
I used to be misrepresented by Mike Honda in District 15 (Cupertino). Mike Honda is one of the anybody-but-America representatives who are signatories to this bleeping letter.
I checked on the web and found that Raymond L. Chukwu (pronounced Choo'Koo) is running against Honda in the 15th. I left a message on his election office recorder a few minutes ago to let him know about this Honda "mistake" and told him I hoped he'd be able to use it.
I thought maybe this could be passed on to what used to be the NRA Silicon Valley Members Council. I hope it will useful. Best regards.
Also let the local papers know.
I guess only ZEL MILLER is savvy enough to call it like it is. I don't expect any PC Republican to get mad and speak out.
I am stopping this post before I say swear words.
More on this thread including names and 4 of them are on DSA(democratic socialists of america)'s "Progressive Caucas" list:
Brown
Carson
Davis
Nadler
Good replies and check out post #27 on down as well:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1164892/posts
Some of these demoCommiecRATs are friends listed below:
http://www.cpusa.org/
http://www.dsausa.org/
DSA's "Progressive Caucas" Links below:
http://bernie.house.gov/pc/
http://bernie.house.gov/pc/members.asp
The Anti-American U.N. Loving Enemy Within!!!!
FReegards, D2
To add to the confusion, AFP got it wrong. Eddie Bernice Johnson is a Dem rep from Texas.
...according to a statement issued by Florida representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, who spearheaded the effort.
Like most of her brethren in the Congressional Black Caucus, Eddie Bernice is a member in good standing of the Democratic Socialists of America. I suspect that the DSA's membership list would give you near 100% coverage of the signatories...
Same article - posted 07/02/2004 12:46:55 AM PDT
Still, it's good to see more coverage. :-)
Voting is a state issue, which the Feds can only provide some guidance or laws. Each individual state sets up its own system. For these US lawmakers to make such a request...is admitting they never took civics in high school. The UN officials would have to have permission of 50 different states to perform this action. New York and California are the only two states that might go along with this. If you showed up in Florida or Alabama...with a blue helmet and claiming observer status at the polling station...you will be escorted off the grounds. In most foreign countries, its the federal government that mandates and runs elections...but in the United States (hint) of America...its 50 states that make up the union, and those 50 states run the election.
Let the boys in blue come...they can spend tons of money on the US economy while staying down at the Marriot...and never once be allowed to perform their mission. These US congressmen need to go back into school and take civics one more time. Perhaps they will finally realize how this nation actually works.
And who, precisely, would be guarding the guards? Which of the Congressional socialists were these?
Well at least we do not hear voices or read words that are not there.
The UN is here in America if nothing else their HQ's is in New York duhhhhhh.
Riceski
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