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Europeans To Monitor American Voters
shonagon53 writes "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."
Obligatory Nelson quote: "Ha ha!"
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
Hey! We are perfectly capable of voting on our own thank you! The Diebold company assures me of that.
I laughed for about 2 minutes and people in the apartment are looking at me funny. This is just too funny. I wonder if and how Fox will report it "Kerry calls upon his french contributors to undermine the US of A" oh god, this news makes my day...
As an American, I welcome oversight from a foreign country. Oh, any by all means, let it be a 3rd world nation where they take the vote seriously.
No? Then what good are they? :)
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
The fact that the country did not break into civil war is because we ARE a model democracy.
Absolutely! A model democracy like the USA (as everyone knows, "the world's most stable democracy") would NEVER erupt into a civil war over a dispute between different regions of the country, would it? Why, to even suggest such a thing is absurd!
Shortly after the mess that was the 2000 election, Fidel Castro offered to send Cuban election observers to Florida. I guess he does have a sense of humor.
I am officially gone from
I always wanted to make this bumper sticker for Florida Democrats:
Get your Unix fortune now!
Diebold?
harmonious design
"If a dead man can understand a Chicago ballot well enough to vote, it's not too complex to include 3rd party candidates..." - Mike Lorrey
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves
If you did that, the conservative side wouldn't need prisons - it would just deport criminals to the progressive side.
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.
You are insane.
Fool: One who can't negotiate the finer distinctions of a statement like "there is little guarantee".
But go ahead, play into the whole party politics bullshit, where republicans are evil and democrats are enlightened saintly men, who serve only to make the world a better place.
Personally, I think we should revoke citizenship rights of anyone that has voted for either party, and elect a president via lottery.
You're believing Michael Moore about this, aren't you? This is one of his many lies. Witnesses on the spot have a different story.
On the other hand, Kerry said of himself that when he learned of the attacks, he sat frozen for over a half hour. (This was on the 8 July Larry King Live interview.) Even if we were to believe that Bush froze, it was for no more than 7 minutes.
Good thing it wasn't Kerry on the spot then, huh?
And the brethren went away edified.
Have you noticed that you have a strange, unaccoutable desire to nuke your Linux install and put XP on your computer?
When you see a picture of Bill Gates, do you find yourself wanting to grovel?
Tech Public Policy stuff
Because people's home PCs are exactly the kind of secure platforms from which any good democracy should determine its future leaders.
Wow. I guess you get to call Kerry a douchebag but nobody else is allowed to call Bush one huh?
Typical republinazi. They can dish it out but they can't take it. Pussies.
As for me I think the days of the peaceful liberals are over. It's time we adopted the republitard tactics. Yes that means dragging them behind cars and crucifiying them alongside the highways.
evil is as evil does
Let the courts decide which field belongs to which candidate
A monkey is doing the real work for me.
I would rather the CIC freeze for a couple minutes and process information rather than blindly jump scream "HOLY SHIT KIDS WE"RE GOING TO FUCKING DIE!" and run out of the room screaming "LAUNCH THE NUKES. FLATTEN THOSE BASTARDS"
T Money
World Domination with a plastic spoon since 1984
Really.
So what does, "We won't forget this.", mean exactly? Next you'll invade Aberdeen to get access to (what's left) of north sea oil in a bid to liberate the Scots from the yoke of Blair the dictator?
You're a funny man. Go militia boy go!
Yeah right, as if the Democrats could plan that far ahead.
WOW! Only two funny-modded posts! You americans are relly pretentious..
Didn't Clinton do that too, at the time some intern was complaining about a dry-cleaning bill?
I think I have figured the mods out. They actually do make sense ...
Post anything that has the slightest conservative message, no matter how insightful, interesting or just plain correct, get modded troll or flamebait. Post anything that has the most ridiculous liberal hate-America-first nonsense, no matter how stupid, uneducated, flamebaity or trollish, and there you go, some free karma for your collection.
Gotta get me some of that!