Talk:Election monitoring

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I have removed the following text as - based on my experience as an election observer - it is mostly inaccurate. Observers are NOT concentrated in problem areas and do NOT generally use cameras and recording devices.

The monitoring itself takes many forms. Even the most closely scrutinized elections have only a relatively small number of observers. These observers are generally concentrated in areas that may be subject to problems, making surprise visits to polling stations with cameras and recording devices. Foreign observers rarely speak the language or understand the culture of the country where the election is being monitored. The vast majority of election monitoring thus relies on locals. Many domestic observers tend to be partisans looking out for the interests of their party and it is a challenge for international observers to parse the information they receive from these sources. The objectivity of some international observers is also questioned. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.185.144.122 (talk • contribs) 17:05, 14 February 2008


 * Please sign your comments. Why did you remove the last sentence and its source?


 * The other stuff you removed is unsourced. So maybe it should go since no one is backing it up with references. I did not add the info.


 * The info you added was also unsourced. So it is no more credible than the stuff you removed. I suggest you find some sources for the material you add. --Timeshifter (talk) 22:56, 14 February 2008 (UTC)


 * The two sentences requiring citations above seem factually incorrect. I'd like to amend/delete them. --Mweriksson (talk) 10:02, 1 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The link to the BBC article on the OSCE boycott is unnecessary as I've added a direct link to the OSCE-ODIHR page --Mweriksson (talk) 10:02, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It is good to have further references, and in a summarized, highly readable form such as BBC articles. It also shows more notability. --Timeshifter (talk) 10:35, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Feel free to amend anything, or to delete any unsourced info. I suggest deleting all the unsourced info, so there is no selective deletion. --Timeshifter (talk) 21:34, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Depsite lack of citation.... my experience tells me some of the issues raised are facts. In Zimbabwe international observer mision who came two days before the election had found that ZANU-PF had stopped the violence and some of them declared the election free and fair ( this was true for the election before this more recent disputed one) Vitumbiko Chinoko, Malawi. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.190.95.237 (talk • contribs) 06:48, 8 August 2008

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Non-international election observers
This article appears to be dedicated to international efforts to monitor elections (even the "Local and regional election monitoring" section), despite the lede's more general definition. What I don't see mentioned here is the kind of national monitoring done, for example, by the major political parties in the United States, of local, state, and national elections. Any suggestions about how we should reconstitute this article for the broader focus implied in the lede? I've got my own local experience, but we'll need to scare up some reliable sources to give proper treatment. Off to the library.... ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:01, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

The whole article really needs to be reviewed and edited. Jeff Q rightly points that at times the article seems to be dedicated to international observation. But it also confuses categories such as regional, local, domestic etc. It also presents some observation methodology and organisational structure as a "norm" while in fact it is closely related to observation of one or two international organisations. Someone needs to take couple of hours and re-structure the article and tighten the terminology.Potjernik (talk) 08:52, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

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