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election observation  

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  • Election observation entails “the purposeful gathering of information regarding an electoral process, and the making of informed judgments on the conduct of such a process on the basis of the information collected, by persons who are not inherently authorized to intervene in the process” (UN Code of Practice quoted in Harris, 1997, p. 27). [Source: International Encyclopedia of Political Science; Election Observation]

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