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2004 US Presidential Election
November 02, 2004
Ohio | Foreign Election Observers Take Up Stations
From the Washington Times :
About 60 mainly European election observers have taken up their posts in six states, including Florida and Ohio, saying they hope their presence will serve as a “preventative to the shenanigans” during voting tomorrow.
“We will tell the people of Ohio whether their election is free and fair,” said one of the observers, Hugo Coveliers, a Belgian senator who plans to monitor voting in Cleveland.
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The observers have already fanned out to Florida, New Mexico, Minnesota, Ohio, North Carolina and Virginia. After meeting with local officials and voters groups, the observers — whose home countries range from Belgium to Kazakhstan — will spend Election Day watching the polls.
The OSCE rules do not allow observers to do much more than make sure that local rules are followed. If they see someone burning ballots in the alley, they are not permitted to interfere. Nor are they supposed to criticize the army of lawyers, negative advertising or simplistic campaign speeches that many of them seem to find jarring.
Nevertheless, the observers hope their presence will serve as a “preventative to the shenanigans,” said Mr. Coveliers, the Belgian senator. “What [the voters] can be sure about is, if there are obvious shortcomings, an international organization of 55 countries will declare there are shortcomings.”
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The delegates are from Greece, Belgium, Denmark, Cyprus, Sweden, Serbia-Montenegro, Kazakhstan, Romania, Switzerland, France, Malta, Albania, Romania, Norway, Finland, Italy, Russia, Monaco, Belarus, Estonia and Turkey.
Posted by Alan Brain at November 2, 2004 07:35 AM
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Just what we need is observers from Belarus.
They enjoy such free elections in that socialist hell hole,Estonia,Kazahstan.
Geezzz
Posted by: NeilV at November 2, 2004 08:02 AM
Have not seen any evidence of anything fishy (challengers, observers, media, etc) in Greene County (Dayton) Ohio
Posted by: chublogga at November 2, 2004 02:04 PM
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