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

[Adrian Tymes]

They said it's a humiliation for some Americans, not
for America as a whole.  And they're right: there are
some Americans who are humiliated that other Americans
have enough cause to mistrust the ostensibly
world-class American voting process that they feel it
necessary to bring in foreign observers.

--- Alfio Puglisi <puglisi at arcetri.astro.it> wrote:

> 
> 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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