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Porter Goss: “The election has been, by all observation, a total sham. The OAS has come back and said this is not even a pretense of…”

On the recordJuly 13, 2000
The election has been, by all observation, a total sham. The OAS has come back and said this is not even a pretense of democracy. There is no transparency. The final blow for me, and I have been giving them the benefit of the doubt for a long time, as the gentleman knows, hoping against hope that things will get better, but when I spoke with Mr. Manus, that was the end of it. It is over.
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Porter Goss
Florida

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Addressing concerns about the legitimacy of an election.

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