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Foreign Observers Ready to Monitor US Elections

On Thursday, short-term observers from the OSCE arrive in the United States. For the first time ever, a foreign organization will be officially monitoring a US presidential vote.

In teams of two, the observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will be deployed across the country. They will monitor the opening of polling stations, the voting, the counting of ballots and the tabulation of results at all levels.

The OSCE traditionally observes voting more in ex-Soviet states and emerging democracies. But while the US is a far cry from Kazakhstan, the mission's input is now necessary after a series of balloting problems in Florida sowed chaos and confusion in the US presidential race in 2000.

I don't know about you but I find this is pretty sad and embarrassing. We invented this stuff and now a group that has been monitoring elections in Kazakhstan is coming here to monitor our elections. It is indeed a sad day.