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Christopher Hitchens, that gadfly, wonders if the US elections are in need of third party observers.

Here are some of the questions that the UN and international monitors would have to consider, before validating the 2000 election:

1) Has there already been the open purchase of votes, as seemed to be the acknowledged case in the Iowa caucuses?

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3) Are there restrictions placed on the entry of third-party or independent candidates? Have these restrictions been imposed by a collusion of the existing parties?

4) Do there exist impediments to the placing of minority parties on ballots?

5) Do there exist impediments to voter registration?

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