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

[Alfio Puglisi]

Note that the OSCE is there at the request of some US congressmen
and the State Department, so it's hardly an "humiliation" for American
people as slashdot says.

Alfio

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote:

>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
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