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Date: November 23, 2004 8:19:21 AM PST
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Subject: REPUBLICAN CHALLENGES PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION BASED ON EXIT
POLLS
REPUBLICAN CHALLENGES PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION BASED ON EXIT POLLS
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
from the New York Times
An international election observer mission - from the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe, the European Parliament, the NATO
Parliamentary Assembly and the Council of Europe - released a
preliminary report on Monday declaring that the election did not meet
democratic standards.
The observers' findings were seconded by Republican Senator Richard G.
Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Citing the disturbing fact that official results diverged sharply from
a range of surveys of voters at polling places, Lugar said, "A
concerted and forceful program of election-day fraud and abuse was
enacted with either the leadership or cooperation of governmental
authorities."
Other prominent Western observers were unsparing in their criticism of
the state's conduct of the election.
"Fundamental flaws in Ukraine's presidential election process
subverted its legitimacy," the National Democratic Institute for
International Affairs, sponsored by the Democratic Party in the United
States, declared in its preliminary report. The institute, cited
"systematic intimidation, overt manipulation and blatant fraud" that
were "designed to achieve a specific outcome irrespective of the will
of the people."
-- New York Times
From GregPalast.com: This reporter was unable to reach Senator Lugar
regarding the inconsistency of official election results and exit
polls in the USA; the intimidation of minority voters in Florida and
Ohio; nor the failure to count two million ballots cast, half by
African-American voters, in America's first post-democratic election
held earlier this month.
Eastern bloc observers noted that balloting in Ohio, New Mexico and
Florida did not meet Ukrainian standards, but applauded America's
attempt to restore democratic institutions after the overthrow of
elected government in 2000.
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