These guys are good, and hopefully will spot any right-wing nonsense. However, states get to decide whether to let them observe, so they may not get permission where they’re needed most — like Ohio:
United Nations-affiliated election monitors from Europe and central Asia will be at polling places around the U.S. looking for voter suppression activities by conservative groups, a concern raised by civil rights groups during a meeting this week. The intervention has drawn criticism from a prominent conservative-leaning group combating election fraud.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a United Nations partner on democratization and human rights projects, will deploy 44 observers from its human rights office around the country on Election Day to monitor an array of activities, including potential disputes at polling places. It’s part of a broader observation mission that will send out an additional 80 to 90 members of parliament from nearly 30 countries.
Liberal-leaning civil rights groups met with representatives from the OSCE this week to raise their fears about what they say are systematic efforts to suppress minority voters likely to vote for President Obama.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the NAACP and the ACLU, among other groups, warned this month in a letter to Daan Everts, a senior official with OSCE, of “a coordinated political effort to disenfranchise millions of Americans — particularly traditionally disenfranchised groups like minorities.”
The request for foreign monitoring of election sites drew a strong rebuke from Catherine Engelbrecht, founder and president of True the Vote, a conservative-leaning group seeking to crack down on election fraud.
You remember Catherine. One of her hand-picked candidates was registered and voting in Texas AND Pennsylvania!
(Jimmy) Carter Center says: “Election Process in Venezuela is the Best in the World” – ya know, the country ruled by that autocrat Hugo Chavez.
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=8935
Guess they won’t say the same thing about the elections in the greatest nation on earth.
If the elections are stolen (like in 2000 & 2004), will the Dems fight back? Dem party pooh-baahs don’t like people protesting silly things like you know, stolen elections (they are afraid tomorrow the proles will be protesting their own policies if encouraged today). DUring the 2009 protests in Iran, there was a cartoon which said something like : “why do Iranians protest stolen elections? Because they hate the American way of life”.