The OSCE is Observing U.S. Elections: Outrage is the Wrong Response

http://cnponline.org/ht/display/ViewBloggerThread/i/40696/pid/35636

There is some minor controversy about the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) sending a team of almost 60 people to monitor next month's elections. The Conservative blogosphere is enraged at this "violation of American sovereignty." Much of their outrage is directed at liberal groups like the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the NAACP, and the ACLU, all of whom expressed concern to the OSCE over state laws they worry might disenfranchise votes - particularly minority votes - on Election Day. They see the OSCE monitoring team as a reaction to a liberal call for support, of some sort.

The OSCE has been observing U.S. elections since 2002. Just two years ago, they observed the 2010 mid-term elections. They do not do this because the ACLU asks them to (as this article implies). They do this because the United States chose to join the OSCE (which has 56 members) in 1973 and signed the Charter of Paris in 1990.

And they just observe and report. They don't have a mandate to do anything more.


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Yup, google US and osce and you'll see redstate.com and other right wing sites completely enraged with the notion that some european socialsts are coming over to tell the freest country in the history of freedom what to do. It's pretty funny actually.

One website i read referred to the UN as a "controversial organization". I wont link them here because i dont want to give them the opportunity to rise in the google rankings.