This is the most rediculous story yet spawned by the 2000 Florida recount. Let's not lose sight that in the precincts that were the most chaotic the polling places, ballots and voter rolls were controlled by local Democrats. So what exactly is their beef? That their own local organizations are too stupid to run precincts or that they are corrupt?
US lawmakers request UN observers for November 2 presidential electionWASHINGTON (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 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."
Once again Pols rely on an uninformed electorate lapping up their partisan poison. One would think American Pols would be asking Kofi Annan a few hard questions about the Sudan, not inviting them to do mischief within our electoral process.
Annan was recently served up a Sudanese Potemkin Village that will result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of black Sudanese.
Sudan removes camp before Annan sees it Fast move by government pre-empts U.N. chief's view of desperate squatters
This is another horrifying example of an inept UN that calls for an investigation into their mishandling of resources and outright bungling of responsiblities. How many million Africans must die before the American Left realizes the UN has absoultely no interest in people of color and/or the poor and will them sell out to tyrant du jour.
UPDATE: John of LiLPoH writes:
"The bastions of politically correct thought in the liberal media can no longer ignore the genocide going on in Sudan. "
I wouldn't bet on it...as John says, the media will find a way to blame America. Read his excellent post. (a hat tip to Kat)
Posted by feste at July 2, 2004 11:10 AM | TrackBack