UK Guardian trying to influence US election.

Gotta love non American folks meddling in our election.  That is OUR job!

I don\'t need some Euro liberal telling me how to vote - I have liberals here that do that!

Then again I have British friends that say the the best way to handle anything from The Guardian is to ignore it.


EXCERPT

My fellow non-Americans ...

The result of the US election will affect the lives of millions around the world but those of us outside the 50 states have had no say in it - until now. In a unique experiment, G2 has assembled a democratic toolkit to enable people from Basildon to Botswana to campaign in the presidential race. And with a little help from the folks in Clark County, Ohio, you might help decide who takes up residence in the White House next month. Oliver Burkeman explains how

Get the name of a US voter

Wednesday October 13, 2004
The Guardian

It\'s just possible that you have heard this once or twice before recently, but the forthcoming American election, on November 2, may be the most important in living memory. People have been saying this about every presidential race for decades - but, as one environmentalist put it recently in a US newspaper interview, precisely the problem with crying wolf is that sometimes there is a wolf. You would be forgiven, though, for feeling increasingly helpless as you hear the "most important election" mantra repeated daily: unless you happen to be a voter in a handful of swing states, there\'s little you can do about the final result. If you\'re not American, the situation is more acute. Certainly, the actions of the US impact on our lives in overwhelming ways; British political life may now be at least as heavily influenced by White House policy as by the choices of UK voters. And yet, though the US Declaration of Independence speaks of "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind", you don\'t, of course, have a vote. You can\'t even donate money to the campaigns: foreign contributions are outlawed. And you\'re unlikely to have the chance to do any campaigning on the ground. All you can do is wait and watch: you\'re powerless.
Or are you? At G2, that sounded like fighting talk. Where others might see delusions of grandeur, we saw an opportunity for public service - and so, on the following pages, we have assembled a handy set of tools that non-Americans can use to have a real chance of influencing the outcome of the vote. We\'ve identified ways to give money to help your preferred candidate, even though direct campaign contributions from foreigners aren\'t allowed. There are ideas for making your voice heard in the influential local media outlets where it could really count. And at the core of it is a unique scheme to match individual Guardian readers to individual American voters, giving you the opportunity to write a personal letter, citizen to citizen, explaining why this election matters to you, and which issues you think ought to matter to the US electorate. It may even be a chance to persuade somebody to use their vote at all.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1326033,00.html

[GmanJoe]

If they want to vote, we can always take over Britain.

Originally posted by GmanJoe
If they want to vote, we can always take over Britain.

 Good one.