No Quarters has some good reporting on the election observer issue...

While having UN observers (or really, any foreign observers at all) on the US elections tends to raise my hackles, it doesn't mean it's time to head for the hills. We're talking about beaurocrats watching the conduct of public officials at polling places, and presumably checking to make sure that people legally able to vote are allowed to do so, examining voting equipment for signs of fraud, and so on. Those are tasks that someone needs to do, at least on a spot-check basis.

I definitely do NOT think we should expect to see UN blue-helmeted soldiers at our polling places. Some people in Florida will likely see men in suits. But no men in helmets. And the odds are that those men in suits will watch, maybe find a few minor things to complain about, and then go away.

Posted on 2004-08-20 10:34:59.0 by matthew@triggerfinger.org

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