Originally posted by demaw1
Ravs...annoyed....
If it was good enough for our fore fathers it is good enough for us now.
Ummmm...a system devised 200 years ago when communications took weeks if not months to cross the nation and literacy was low is still applicable now?
I'm not saying the system needs changing but that assertion is completely out of context.
Hell slavery was good enough for the founding fathers too...maybe that should be re-instated?
I think the mistake made at the beginning of this post was the assumption that monitoring is bad? Not at all. In fact having people who don't have a direct stake in the results monitor the elections is a good policy. I'm just not sure Europeans are exactly unbiased on this front. Maybe an international panel? Like olympic Ice Skating...oh wait bad example.
Canadians have problems with this too. It would help if the press was actually immune from bias (in either direction) and capable of being democracy's watchdog. Sadly though, relying on the press to play its role in monitoring democracy is rather like asking a blind, deaf, mute quadraplegic to protect your nymphomaniac daughter's virtue.