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米大統領選に国際監視団 前回混乱のフロリダで
【ニューヨーク８日共同】米国のカトリック系平和運動団体「パクスクリスティＵＳＡ」は８日、２０００年の前回大統領選の開票が混乱したフロリダ州での今年１１月の同選挙に、世界３０カ国からの要員で構成する国際監視団を配置すると発表した。
国際的な選挙監視団といえば通常、国連や先進国の官民組織が派遣し、発展途上国の選挙の公正さを確保するのが目的。パクスクリスティのデーブ・ロビンソン常務理事は同州タラハシーでの記者会見で「米国人が途上国に出掛けるのが普通だが、わが国も世界から来てもらう必要がある」と述べた。
これに対し、ブッシュ大統領の実弟であるブッシュ州知事は、フロリダを第三世界並みに扱うとは侮辱だとカンカン。「有権者を惑わそうとする政治的意図がある」と語った。（共同通信）
[3月9日10時22分更新]
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-campaign-florida.html?pagewanted=print&position
International Election Monitors Take on Florida [NewYorkTimes/REUTERS]
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March 8, 2004
International Election Monitors Take on Florida
By REUTERS
Filed at 3:38 p.m. ET
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - An international group that usually monitors elections in developing democracies said Monday it would take up posts at Florida precincts in November in hopes of averting another debacle when voters pick the next U.S. president.
Four years after Florida became the object of international ridicule, officials for the Catholic group Pax Christi USA will place monitors from 30 countries at polls in four Florida counties that were at the center of the 2000 U.S. presidential election dispute.
The Washington-based group will ask its international organization to send monitors to Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Duval counties, where voting irregularities kept the outcome of the 2000 presidential race in doubt for more than month.
The national coordinator for Pax Christi USA, Dave Robinson, said Florida's 2000 election woes were symbolic of errors across the United States that disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters.
``Normally, Americans go to developing nations to ensure fair, transparent and free elections,'' Robinson said.
``We felt it was necessary to bring our friends from other parts of the world to the United States to bear witness in order that we might have a fair transparent and free elections.''
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said equating Florida's election system with that of a Third World country was insulting. He also said Florida had put in place machinery and voter education programs that made it a model for the nation.
``This is all part of some politically motivated thing that tries to scare people to somehow think their vote is not going to count,'' Bush said. ``That's hogwash, hogwash.''
Florida voters split down the middle in the Nov. 7, 2000, election, spawning court battles over whether and how to count imperfect ballots. The battle went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and George W. Bush was eventually declared the winner by 537 votes, which put him in the White House.
Florida has banished the balky punchcard ballots that made a household word of ``chad,'' the bits of cardboard dislodged when the cards were punched.
Florida counties now use paper ballots that are penciled in like standardized tests and read via optical scanners, or electronic touch-screen machines similar to automated bank teller machines.
Some counties have had glitches with the latter. U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, a Florida Democrat, filed a federal lawsuit on Monday asking a judge to order ballot printers that would produce a paper record in the 15 counties that use touch-screen machines. Without them, he said, there is no way to conduct a manual recount.
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