Fwd: [MC_USA] The depths of degradation of American Politics.

[Guest guest]

There were lots and lots of illegal shenanigans in the

last election ( enough for a whole slew of books) and there are many more

planned for the

next one, including the widespread use of computerized

terminals with no paper trail that could prove

embarrassing after the tabulated rigged election

results.

 

These riggable voting machines have already been deployed and used for illegal

activities in elections on a state and local levels scale. Now they

think that they are ready for " prime time " . I never

thought that I would see the day when the national

american political scene would be dragged down to such

depths of degradation. We really do need international

observers with this level of corruption that we

have.F.

 

 

> Wayne Fugitt <wfugitt

> Sat, 03 Jul 2004 03:28:28 -0500

> [MC_USA] The UN and American Politics

>

>

> WASHINGTON (AFP) - Several members of the House of

> Representatives have

> requested the United Nations

>

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> sites) to send observers to monitor the November 2

> US presidential election

> to avoid a contentious vote like in 2000, when the

> outcome was decided by

> Florida.

>

> Recalling the long, drawn out process in the

> southern state, nine

> lawmakers, including four blacks and one Hispanic,

> sent a letter Thursday

> to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan asking that the

> international body

> " ensure free and fair elections in America, "

> according to a statement

> issued by Florida representative Eddie Bernice

> Johnson, who spearheaded the

> effort.

>

> " As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America

> that our nation will

> not experience the nightmare of the 2000

> presidential election, " she said

> in the letter.

>

>

> " This is the first step in making sure that history

> does not repeat

> itself, " she added after requesting that the UN

> " deploy election observers

> across the United States " to monitor the November,

> 2004 election.

>

> The lawmakers said in the letter that in a report

> released in June 2001,

> the US Commission on Civil Rights " found that the

> electoral process in

> Florida resulted in the denial of the right to vote

> for countless persons. "

>

> The bipartisan commission, they stressed, determined

> " that the

> 'disenfranchisement of Florida's voters fell most

> harshly on the shoulders

> of black voters' and in poor counties. " Both groups

> vote predominantly

> Democratic in US elections.

>

> The commission also concluded, the lawmakers added,

> that " despite promised

> nationwide reforms (of the voting system) ...

> adequate steps have not been

> taken to ensure that a similar situation will not

> arise in 2004 that arose

> in 2000. "

>

> Thirty-six days after the November 7, 2000

> presidential election, after

> several state court interventions and vote recounts

> in numerous Florida

> counties, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of

> Republican George W. Bush,

> awarding him all of Florida's 25 electoral votes.

>

> The ruling tipped the balance against Democratic

> contender and then vice

> president Al Gore

>

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> sites), who with 267 electoral votes lost to Bush's

> 271, only one more than

> the minimum 270 needed to clinch the presidential

> election.

>