UN poll monitors in U.S.(Insider Report)(United Nations )(Brief Article)

"Election monitors that normally would be expected to observe elections in fledgling democracies like Azerbaijan and Moldova are scheduled to watch the vote in a more established democratic nation the United States," reported Fox News on August 26.

Responding to a request from 13 Democratic congressmen and the State Department, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe [OSCE] will be sending a group to make sure the United States holds a fair election in November." The invitation to the OSCE followed an earlier request from several congressional Democrats for UN election monitors.

In recent years, the Vienna-based OSCE has dispatched monitors to elections in both Europe and the U.S. Representatives of the group were on hand to observe the 2002 U.S. congressional vote and California's gubernatorial recall election in 2003. In 1990, during the administration of the first President Bush, Washington signed a multilateral agreement amounting to a standing invitation to the OSCE to ...