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Monitors ensure by and large that polls are fair, or, if they are not, that those who fix them are named and shamed. NDI and other groups send observers worldwide. Many spend months preparing for polls, trying to educate voters and officials.
Election monitors may only have the right to watch, encourage and speak the truth, but they have the capacity to strip away the democratic disguise which dictators and autocrats so often try to don.
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