The OSCE is Monitoring the US Presidential Elections

The United States invited the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to monitor the presidential elections in taking place on November 4th, 2008. Individuals from countries abroad have seen this as an opportunity for the US to finally fulfill the OSCE commitments. The fact that the OSCE is monitoring our elections is important because they are experts at monitoring elections, also it is a chance for the US to finally fulfill some of the promises which it has not yet fulfilled.

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Votes from Abroad

The race for the Democratic nomination is nowhere near its end. As things stand now, there are numerous people serving our country overseas that need to cast their delegate votes for Clinton or Obama. “Democrats Abroad (a group comprising Americans living overseas) awards its 11 delegate votes in half-vote increments” (The path to 2008 presidential nomination). There are still 10 states holding their primaries between April 22nd and June 7,th until then the winner is still unclear. Of those 11 delegate votes awarded to the Democratic Party 4.5 have casted their vote for Obama while 2.5 have casted their vote for Clinton. “Democrats abroad will send 22 delegates to the national convention, where each will cast half a vote” (The path to 2008 presidential nomination). How these delegates will influence the outcome of the Democratic nominee we will just have to wait and see.