i [Politics] Russian Observer Shocked by U.S. Election Procedures

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: AMBOLLC () aol com
Date: November 30, 2004 10:57:25 AM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Russian Observer Shocked by U.S. Election Procedures

Mosnews.com
November 3, 2004
Russian Observer Shocked by U.S. Election Procedures

A Russian parliamentarian taking part in international monitoring of the
U.S. presidential elections has said that the elections were held in
violation of U.S. law and that that he was shocked after seeing how the
elections were held.

The Interfax news agency cited []State Duma deputy Aleksei Ostrovsky of 
the
[]Liberal Democratic Party as saying that he was shocked by the way the
 elections were held in the U.S.

“In my opinion there are possibilities to forge the elections results 
and
these possibilities are caused by serious, as we see it, violations of 
the
electoral law,” the MP said in a telephone interview.

The parliamentarian noted that primarily he was shocked by the fact that
 U.S. citizens do not produce any ID as they come to polling stations. 
“It
is enough to say ’I am Mr. Smith,’ and he is allowed to vote; the same
 person can exit one polling station and go to another and vote again 
using
the same procedure,” the Russian MP said.

Ostrovsky also noted that all Americans who he talked to had said they 
did
not like voting by computer. “Often people simply do not understand how 
to
vote and nobody really tries to explain it to them,” the observer said.

Apart from Aleksei Ostrovsky two more Russian parliamentarians are
observing the U.S. presidential elections under the aegis of the OSCE. 
They
are the deputy chief of State Duma’s International Affairs Committee
Aleksandr Kozlovsky of the []United Russia faction and a member of the
Committee for Affairs of Federation and Regional Policy, Leonid 
Ivanchenko
of the []Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
  

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