International observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have been invited to "oversee" the US Presidential election. To show how impartial OSCE is they selected an impeached US judge (and Congressman) Alcee Hasting to lead their effort. The American Policy Center warns that their involvement is a threat to our 2004 election.

The OSCE's record in past elections in countries where oversight is needed doesn't pass the smirk test. In Bosnia in 1996, for example, the OSCE gave its seal of approval to parliamentary elections despite the fact that an impossible 107 percent of the possible voting-age population had voted. In 1998, the OSCE observer team that was to monitor the cease-fire between the Serbs and Albanians was caught sending targeting information back to the US and European Union in advance of the US-led attack on Serbia. This year, the OSCE approved the election of Mikheil Saakashvili in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia with a Saddam Hussein-like 97 percent of the vote! There are dozens more similar examples. With a track record like that it is unlikely that they could provide any help to us.

Congressman Ron Paul points out at Truth News that Secretary of State Colin Powell had no business inviting the OSCE because our presidential elections are conducted by the states, not the federal government. Each state conducts its election and submits its results by the electoral college. There is no federal role at all.

Will Washington's Secretary of State Sam Reed allow interference in our election? He now has his hands full with the controversy over and the implementation details of our new "by party" primary. But will he get ready to prevent interference from Alcee Hastings and his crew of "observers"?
Via CNSnews.com.