"To be honest, monitoring elections in Serbia a few months ago was much simpler," Konrad Olszewski, an election observer stationed in Miami by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, told the International Herald Tribune. "They have one national election law and use the paper ballots I really prefer over any other system."
Two-member observer teams have fanned out across 11 states and include citizens of 36 countries, ranging from Canada and Switzerland to Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Slovenia and Belarus.
Formation of the U.S. election mission came after the State Department issued a standard letter on June 9 inviting the group to monitor the election.
The Vienna-based OSCE, a 55-nation body that encourages all member countries to observe each others' elections. Another group, invited by the San Francisco activist group "Global Exchange," is deployed in five states watching for evidence of "disenfranchisement."
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