UN Observers at Elections in Omaha!

[DaveB]

The UN is not a country, it is a world thug organization that is hell bent on controlling the US by any means possible.

[NENick]

The UN is not a country, it is a world thug organization that is hell bent on controlling the US by any means possible.

[Ronvandyn]

The UN is not a country, it is a world thug organization that is hell bent on controlling the US by any means possible.

You make an excellent point, and one I agree with.  Most of the stuff we get from them for our money is sessions where the USA and/or Isreal get bashed.   Everything else is a waste of effort.
No credibility in my book.

My point was that we should be proud enough of how we do it to be willing to showcase it.  Obviously there are countries out there that could use the perspective, but I'm not sure that the UN is the agency to give it to them without a serious amount of bias.

Ron

[DaveB]

I think we do make our elections open to everyone. What other country has every tv station updating every minute of an election up until the time it is over? If someone wants to see how it's done, they can go to Youtube and watch, I'm sure there is something there.

[bkoenig]

The problem is th UN has an agenda, and it's not one that will benefit America. They want the elections to go a certain way and if Romney wins they will claim fraud.  They are not impartial observers.

Besides that, it's a matter of sovereignity.  We don't need other countries interfering in our political process.

[CitizenClark]

The problem is th UN has an agenda, and it's not one that will benefit America. They want the elections to go a certain way and if Romney wins they will claim fraud.  They are not impartial observers.

Besides that, it's a matter of sovereignity.  We don't need other countries interfering in our political process.

As has already been explained earlier in the thread, the United Nations is not sending observers to United States polling locations. An organization called OSCE (that is not a UN creature) is sending observers as part of an ongoing program that the United States has participated in for several decades. These observers have no authority to interfere with anything. They basically fill out a survey. None of them will be in Nebraska.

[bkoenig]

I was under the mistaken assumption that the OSCE was affiliated with the UN.  Regardless, I don't believe other countries have any business observing our elections.  I don't trust them to be impartial.  For that matter, I don't believe we should be involved in the elections of those countries, either,