UN To Send Observers To Make Sure Election Is Fair

Do you think the US needs international observers? And if so, where? Democrat dominated cities? Rural southern precincts?

I am so relieved

Texas sparks international row with election observers

Texas authorities have threatened to arrest international election observers, prompting a furious response from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs ... -observers

Chavez, Castro and Putin want to make sure their annointed little o doesn't get cheated out of his re-election.

Oh God. Here we go again.... now it's a conspiracy involving the UN controlled by Chavez, Castro and Putin.

Glenn Beck called. He wants his straight jacket back.

raees, the real question here is what in the hell is the UN doing getting involved in our countries political process? They have neither authority or the right to do it.

navycpo7 wrote: raees, the real question here is what in the hell is the UN doing getting involved in our countries political process? They have neither authority or the right to do it.

Lawmakers from the group of 56 European and Central Asian nations have been observing U.S. elections since 2002, without incident.

“The threat of criminal sanctions against [international] observers is unacceptable,” Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), said in a statement. “The United States, like all countries in the OSCE, has an obligation to invite ODIHR observers to observe its elections.”

If you read the article you would have seen the above two paragraphs. Apparently as a member of the OSCE, we have some sort of contractual obligation to invite monitors into our country. They do have a right to be invited.

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote:

navycpo7 wrote: raees, the real question here is what in the hell is the UN doing getting involved in our countries political process? They have neither authority or the right to do it.

Lawmakers from the group of 56 European and Central Asian nations have been observing U.S. elections since 2002, without incident.

“The threat of criminal sanctions against [international] observers is unacceptable,” Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), said in a statement. “The United States, like all countries in the OSCE, has an obligation to invite ODIHR observers to observe its elections.”

If you read the article you would have seen the above two paragraphs. Apparently as a member of the OSCE, we have some sort of contractual obligation to invite monitors into our country. They do have a right to be invited.

Thanks TLGT, did not read the whole thing, so they come in and under whose control if any are they or are they free to just go around and so call observe.

navycpo7 wrote:

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote:

navycpo7 wrote: raees, the real question here is what in the hell is the UN doing getting involved in our countries political process? They have neither authority or the right to do it.

Lawmakers from the group of 56 European and Central Asian nations have been observing U.S. elections since 2002, without incident.

“The threat of criminal sanctions against [international] observers is unacceptable,” Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), said in a statement. “The United States, like all countries in the OSCE, has an obligation to invite ODIHR observers to observe its elections.”

If you read the article you would have seen the above two paragraphs. Apparently as a member of the OSCE, we have some sort of contractual obligation to invite monitors into our country. They do have a right to be invited.

Thanks TLGT, did not read the whole thing, so they come in and under whose control if any are they or are they free to just go around and so call observe.

Well... good questions. The article didn't go into that kind of detail. Just off the top of my head, I would imagine that each polling place has to be aware that a OSCE monitor may show up at their polling place. And I guess that they have credentials and such.

Here's some further info on these observers and the upcoming election.

The presence of foreign observers at American polling places was discussed at an April meeting between the OSCE and the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, the ACLU and other organizations. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights released a letter about the meeting. The letter reads in part:

“On behalf of the undersigned organizations committed to supporting and expanding the civil and human rights of all Americans, including the right to vote, we write regarding the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe’s plans to monitor the upcoming presidential election, and to follow up on a meeting you conducted in April with representatives from the NAACP, League of Women Voters, and others, where concerns were raised about recent efforts to suppress the vote of many Americans in the upcoming election in November 2012. Election observation is an important function of our democratic process and serves as an additional means of protecting the rights of those who are most likely to be disenfranchised and least able to advocate for their right to vote. To that end, we believe it is particularly important that safeguards, including election monitoring, are in place in key areas around the country, and believe your presence would be particularly critical in districts in Colorado, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.”

http://www.inquisitr.com/371778/un-back ... UTTmKDP.99

The article quoted above is long and has some interesting info in it.

navycpo7 wrote: raees, the real question here is what in the hell is the UN doing getting involved in our countries political process? They have neither authority or the right to do it.

Did any of you complain when they went into other countries to monitor the elections? You think we can just march in and monitor OTHER country's elections without them turning around and doing the same thing to us?

International monitors are actually nothing new. ODIHR has kept an eye on US elections since 2002, at the invitation of the State Department, says ODIHR spokesperson Thomas Rymer. But now that the mere act of voting has become Civil-Rights-era politicized, that outside eye matters more.

So, in the event of a Bush-Gore-style close election in 2012, it looks like Democrats and Republicans won't be the only ones arguing over the outcome. The whole world gets to be in on the smackdown.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/10 ... ed-nations

They have neither authority or the right to do it.

They were invited by the State Department. What do we have to hide?