Guardian - Jimmy Carter fears repeat of election fiasco in Florida

[rndmprsn]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1314205,00.html

Jimmy Carter, the former US president, has said Florida lacks "some basic international requirements for a fair election" and a repeat of the 2000 election fiasco "seems likely".

Mr Carter said reforms recommended after the recount in Florida had still not been implemented "because of inadequate funding or political disputes".

Mr Carter, who runs an election and human rights centre in Atlanta, accused election officials working for Florida's governor, Jeb Bush, the president's brother, of being "highly partisan".

They were "brazenly violating a basic need for an unbiased and universally trusted authority to manage all elements of the electoral process".

"The disturbing fact is that a repetition of the problems of 2000 now seems likely, even as many other nations are conducting elections that are internationally certified to be transparent, honest and fair," Mr Carter writes in a commentary reprinted in today's Guardian.

[TaleWgnDg]

1. well? there you go . . .

directly from the mouth of our ex-president Jimmy Carter who oversees "3rd world" election procedures . . . who else would know but Carter and be willing to say so to the general public?

Carter is one to be admired as he calls it like it is. However, the next question is "what will be done to cure it?" After all, Florida has a Republican (rightwing) legislative body that pounds on the state judges for doing their judicial duty!! And need I add that the 5 justices on the USSupCt march to the very same drummer?

What's the bottom line here? More nothing?

[bogey18]

2. Signed, sealed and delivered.