A Tangled Web

THIRD WORLD TO MONITOR US ELECTIONS.



Thomas Kilgannon has a great take here on the fact "that next month the United States will have the distinction of having joined the elite club of countries like Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka whose elections are scrutinized and critiqued by international election monitors."



He explains, "It is a national disgrace that is openly advocated by leftist activists and a group of congressional Democrats. After UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan turned down a request from ten Democrat Congressmen to send poll watchers (he said the petition had to originate with the executive branch of government) the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) gleefully accepted a similar invitation channeled through the State Department. Soon afterward a Canadian newspaper headline gloated – accurately – "Third World Monitors U.S. Elections."