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Russia readying election observers to monitor U.S. midterms
« on: October 06, 2018, 01:07:36 am »
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Russia readying election observers to monitor U.S. midterms
The Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com

Russian election officials are headed to the United States to prepare for monitoring next month’s midterms, a former member of Moscow’s Central Election Commission said Friday.

Members of Russia’s federal elections agency will travel to the U.S. on Sunday in order to monitor the upcoming midterms as part of a mission being organized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE, an intergovernmental group that lists both nations among its member states, said Vasily Likhachev, a former member of CEC.

The team of six Russians, including “two CEC members … and representatives of Russian civic organizations related to the field of electoral technologies,” will spend five weeks in the U.S. participating in the mission, Mr. Likhachev told TASS, a state-run newswire.

Read more at: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/5/russia-readying-election-observers-to-monitor-us-m/

Funny, but we do need someone to oversee our elections.