International observers very disturbed

The International Herald Tribune (IHT) reports about the response from the international election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Europe. The IHT writes: "The observers said they had less access to polls than in Kazakhstan, that the electronic voting had fewer fail-safes than in Venezuela, that the ballots were not so simple as in the Republic of Georgia and that no other country had such a complex national election system."

Konrad Olszewski, an OSCE election observer stationed in Miami, said: "To be honest, monitoring elections in Serbia a few months ago was much simpler."

It is very disturbing that arguably the greatest nation in the world is unable to conduct a fair and clear presidential election. This is a sad day for fledgling democracies around the globe that are looking to the United States as the example for how to run a democratic election.