Becoming More Third World Everyday

[Gannon]

It seems some don't want their honesty in polling challenged.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/83108.html

Texas and Iowa have come out against international poll watchers. Texas asked them directly, Iowa threatened them.

Sure looks good to the rest of the world, I'm sure.

[Jimaz]

So much for transparency.

Some resources: Wikipedia's article on The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

Following an unprecedented period of activity in the 1990s and early 2000s [[decade), the OSCE has in the past few years faced accusations from the CIS states [[primarily Russia) of being a tool for the Western states to advance their own interests....

Following the 2008 U.S. presidential election, OSCE's ODIHR was accused of having double standards by Russia's lawmaker Slutsky. The point was made that while numerous violations of the voting process were registered, its criticism came only from within the U.S. [[media, human rights organizations, McCain's election staff), while the OSCE known for its bashing criticism of elections on the post-Soviet space remained silent.

OSCE.org