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15:37 - Please tell me this is a joke
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040702/pl_afp/us_vote_congress_040702
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This is the end. Really it is.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Several members of the House of Representatives have requested the United Nations (news - web 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 (news - web sites) 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.
UN observers. To watch our elections.
This is the faith the Democrats have in our system. This is the regard they have for their opponents. They don't trust Republicans any more than they do Iran or Saddam.
And they're willing to use the same kinds of tactics against their own countrymen as they once did against brutal, genocidal dictators.
I can't wait to see blue-helmeted Jordanians and Cubans standing armed outside polling places in Miami, to make sure Bush doesn't steal the election again.
Holy ^&%$^$%%@@. This makes me too furious to even type.
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Brian Tiemann
