A group of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
observers headed by a Swiss representative will "look at" the US presidential
elections on Nov. 2, State Department Richard Boucher said on Thursday.
"They are welcome. They are going to look at our elections. AndI am sure,
like many people in the world and in the United States,they will express their
opinion," Boucher said at a news briefing.
Boucher said this is not the first time as these have been observers at the
2002 US congressional elections and the California governor recall election.
Boucher stressed that this is just a "very normal" practice.
"The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe sends observers to
countries who are members, including the United States, and who are having
elections. That has been a very normal practice for many countries that we have
encouraged, and they are doing so in the case of the US elections," Boucher
said.
There was a vote-counting dispute in the last US presidential elections and
at last the US Supreme Court ruled George W. Bush won the elections in 2000.
