Foreign Election Observers in U.S. to Increase Tenfold From 2012
(CNSNews.com) – When Americans went to the polls four years ago, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) deployed 44 observers, a quarter of whom came from countries deemed by a leading democracy watchdog to be “not free” or “partly free.”
This year, the OSCE plans to send more than ten times that number – and some civil rights groups in the U.S. say even that won’t be enough.
Following a “needs assessment” visit earlier this year, the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) decided to send 100 long-term and 400 short-term observers to monitor the November 8 election. The former will follow the electoral process across the nation while the latter will monitor Election Day itself.
The OSCE has observed U.S. elections since 2002.
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