07-09-2004, 09:42 AM
Yeah, apparantly 13 Democrats from the House of Reps. sent a letter to Kofi Annan last week to request that the UN send representatives to observe the elections to "safeguard the rights of American voters."
The UN turned them down yesterday saying that the UN responds to requests made by national governments, not legislative branches.
Personally, I voted for Gore and was highly disgruntled when Bush rose to power, but... I'm weary of the debate over election fraud. Regardless of the fact that the election outcome was questionable, it's clear that it was a tight race, so I'm not sure that I consider Bush to have been completely alien to what many American people wanted. Now people are paying more attention, and that's good.
I guess I just thought the UN thing was weird because I was under the impression that they usually did not monitor the elections of established democracies and in general, it suggests some degree of UN sovereignty...rather in the line of a praemunire. Further, I'm not sure what exactly they would be able to do to help...
The UN turned them down yesterday saying that the UN responds to requests made by national governments, not legislative branches.
Personally, I voted for Gore and was highly disgruntled when Bush rose to power, but... I'm weary of the debate over election fraud. Regardless of the fact that the election outcome was questionable, it's clear that it was a tight race, so I'm not sure that I consider Bush to have been completely alien to what many American people wanted. Now people are paying more attention, and that's good.
I guess I just thought the UN thing was weird because I was under the impression that they usually did not monitor the elections of established democracies and in general, it suggests some degree of UN sovereignty...rather in the line of a praemunire. Further, I'm not sure what exactly they would be able to do to help...