[extropy-chat] If the nonUS citizens voted in Nov 2 elections...

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

Slashdot, September 27, 2004: The United States is known as being the
world's most stable democracy. But since the Florida 2000 fiasco,
things have changed. Europe's famous Organisation for Security and
Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) will now be monitoring the U.S.
elections. The institution normally monitors elections in third world
countries in transition, and in crisis areas or regions where civil
wars have destabilized the political process. In november, the OSCE
will be monitoring local and state elections in Kazakhstan, Skopje,
Eastern Congo, Ouagadougou and... the United States. As the BBC
reports, for some Americans this comes as a humiliation; others see it
as a necessity, since they have lost trust in the American election
process.
The BBC article says: There have certainly been objections to the
involvement of foreign monitors in the domestic affairs of a country
which sees itself as a beacon of democracy. Of course the discussion
of Slashdot is more heated.
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/26/2217230&tid=226&tid=103&tid=219