UPDATE: U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV, who has called for the U.S. to end funding of the United Nations, today announced that the international peacekeeping organization should be “kicked off U.S. soil” and “defunded.”
The incident that sparked his outrage was an announcement by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe that it will send 44 observer to polling places around the country on Election Day to monitor potential disputes at polling places. The organization is registered as an NGO with United Nations but the U.N. is not involved in monitoring elections in the U.S.
The request for voting day monitoring came from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the NAACP and the ACLU, among other groups. They warned in a letter to the OSCE of “a coordinated political effort to disenfranchise millions of Americans — particularly traditionally disenfranchised groups like minorities.”
Mack, who is chairman of the House Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, said “Every American should be outraged by this news,” and concluded that “the only ones who should ever oversee American elections are Americans.”
His campaign said in a statement that U.N. monitoring “should be reserved for third-world countries, banana republics and fledgling democracies.”
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