NON-PARTISAN groups have been formed after the United States bore witness to elections plagued by long lines and bitter voter registration disputes.

Florida, in particular, witnessed chaotic scenes with more than 200,000 voters estimated to have given up because the queues were so long.
Obama said that the impediments to voting needed to be corrected, as voting was “our most fundamental right as citizens. When Americans – no matter where they live or what their party – are denied that right simply because they can’t wait for five, six, seven hours just to cast their ballot, we are betraying our ideals.”
The president added: “We can fix this, and we will. The American people demand it. And so does our democracy.”
This begs the question why is voting rights so crucial to Americans and to American democracy where the very American government does not hold that right for others in other countries.
Free,  fair and transparent elections were held in Gaza Palestine where Hamas won by a landslide, but the American government does not recognise the will of those Palestinians.
In Guyana, the American government did not recognise the rights of the majority of Guyanese who cast their votes for a government of their choice.
The American government continues to support their installed puppet government here until it could not support it financially after 28 long, hard and suffering years endured by Guyanese.
What is most baffling is, the American government did the same thing in Iran where they removed the democratically-elected government and installed their puppet Shah.
The very American government wanted to build nukes for Iran at that time but no nukes for Iran now, says America.
Why no nukes now,  many in the world are asking?
Is it because the Iranian people kicked out the American puppet Shah and took back their country from the American government in the 1970s, like the people of Guyana who took back their country from the Brits and Americans in 1992 through free, fair and transparent elections.
World opinion demands American double standards come to a screeching halt once and for all and show respect in order to be respected and not put a gun to the head of others and say “do as I say”.
If every vote must be accounted for in America, the American Government must respect the rights of the peoples in Guyana, Iran, Gaza and all democracies where free, fair,  transparent and intimidation free elections are held.
What’s sauce for the goose must be sauce for the gander,  always.