Russia wants to monitor the U.S. presidential elections

by Matthew Rozsa at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2016/10/20/russia-wants-to-monitor-the-u-s-presidential-elections/

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Russia has proposed sending diplomats to our country in order to monitor the upcoming presidential elections. Not surprisingly, this suggestion has been resoundingly — and sometimes forcefully — rejected.

According to the Russian newspaper Izvestia, sources in Russia’s Central Elections Commission held a series of talks with the State Department about sending a delegation of monitors to American polling stations on the day of the presidential election.

American officials unequivocally rejected the proposals, with three states (Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas) even threatening to throw Russian agents in jail if they appeared at the polling place.

“In violation of all principles of democracy and international monitoring, in Texas they even threatened to hold monitors who appear at ballot stations criminally responsible,” they added.


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