That is seriously debatable, and there's really no reason to object to it unless you are worried about what you're doing. It's a public process and there's no reason impartial UN observers shouldn't watch.
I beg to differ. Given how both sides (Republicans with accusations of "Black Panther thugs" and Democrats with the accusations around various voter ID laws and phone calls telling people that voting day was moved to Wednesday) are accusing the other of voter suppression and intimidation, it's obvious that we do need the UN monitoring our elections.
We have one of the highest error/lost ballot rates of all modern industrialized nations. Our election system sucks, and most of our states have failed to implement even reasonable or basic reform.
Regardless, I notice Chicago is suspiciously absent from the list of cities to be monitored. Obviously the president's hometown would NEVER do anything like be their usual lying cheating selves and embarrass the president.
Regardless, I notice Chicago is suspiciously absent from the list of cities to be monitored. Obviously the president's hometown would NEVER do anything like be their usual lying cheating selves and embarrass the president.
Regardless, I notice Chicago is suspiciously absent from the list of cities to be monitored. Obviously the president's hometown would NEVER do anything like be their usual lying cheating selves and embarrass the president.
...you're kidding, right? Please tell me you're being facetious.
Maybe I don't appreciate foreign meddling with my country's affairs.
Never mind the ludicrous generalization you're going with here, you do realize you're voting for the guy who asserted during the final debate that going into Iraq was justified because we "gave them freedom," right?
Maybe I don't appreciate foreign meddling with my country's affairs.
Meddling? They're just observing. All they can do is watch and then issue a report. They have no other power. It's not like they're invading us, assassinating our political leaders, and replacing them with figureheads that will bow to their every desire.
Jack, your position is pure ignorant xenophobia. Seriously, there's nothing here but parroting what you've heard from wackos. This isn't about patriotism.
1. We claim to be a democratic republic, yet our voting system is highly error-prone and inefficiently run by state interests rather than uniformly at a federal level.
2. The 2000 and 2004 elections were statistical ties (the margin of error was greater than the difference between the candidates). This was almost entirely due to our poor system, noted above.
3. There is no possible harm that could come. Either they find no problems, and our elections are lent further legitimacy, or they find problems, giving us more information to use in addressing said problems.
Opposing this is ridiculous, ill-informed xenophobia.
Opposing this is ridiculous, ill-informed xenophobia.
Pretty much this. I really doubt there's any good reason to oppose letting other people watch our elections, unless you really have something to hide. I'm all ears if you have a good answer though, Jack. So far you're just afraid of "foreigners" for no adequately explained reason.
Well, FEMA is both an incompetent, expensive, useless organization of make-work and government waste, or a super-competent, shadow-funded, evil organization prepared to round us up into death camps and let a European New World Order cake control of the US.
So... There's that. (Seriously, I'm sick of right-wing bullshit).
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America, I'm beginning to worry about you.
Edit: And I know what's coming. Yeah i think we should stop meddling in other countries' affairs as well.
If that was serious, shame on you.
1. We claim to be a democratic republic, yet our voting system is highly error-prone and inefficiently run by state interests rather than uniformly at a federal level.
2. The 2000 and 2004 elections were statistical ties (the margin of error was greater than the difference between the candidates). This was almost entirely due to our poor system, noted above.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/story?id=97488&page=1#.UJAFocUxq5I
http://electionlawblog.org/?p=3834
3. There is no possible harm that could come. Either they find no problems, and our elections are lent further legitimacy, or they find problems, giving us more information to use in addressing said problems.
Opposing this is ridiculous, ill-informed xenophobia.
So... There's that. (Seriously, I'm sick of right-wing bullshit).