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."

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Re:Thanks Flordia Republicans.

[thephotoman]

This is off-topic, I know, but MOD PARENT DOWN, FLAMEBAIT.

We have no conclusive evidence on what would have happened under Gore. All that we do know is what Bush did: make a half-assed invasion of a country where the guy who planned the attack was and then toppled the government of another country on the grounds that they had assisted in that attack despite there being no credible evidence of such involvment. Saddam's hatred of bin Laden was only marginally outshone by his hatred of the United States. The same works in reverse. Saddam, in bin Laden's eyes, is an apostostate who deserves execution. bin Laden, in Saddam's eyes, was a threat to his regime.

of course, the rest of the world isn't any better

[Trepidity]

I saw just yesterday that Switzerland defeated a bill that would make it easier for people who were born and raised in Switzerland, but do not have Swiss citizenship, to gain that citizenship. Ireland recently removed a provision that granted automatic citizenship to people born in the country. It seems the US is quickly being the only country that is inclusive of its immigrants, while Europe is maintains its historical racist policies. There's Turks who have lived in Germany for two generations and still have no citizenship, because the process is arduous. Meanwhile, "ethnic Germans" from the former USSR get pretty much automatic citizenship. Denmark won't even give citizenship to the spouses of its citizens. Etc.