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Von Spakovsky: Poll Observers Are Essential to Honest Elections

EASY TO VOTE, HARD TO CHEAT.

There is a reason the U.S. State Department and organizations like the Carter Center routinely send teams of American observers to fledgling democracies all over the world: they recognize that transparency is essential to ensuring honest elections. That requires observers to be able to watch every aspect of the voting and ballot-counting process without being intimidated or interfered with.

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Rights don’t defend themselves.

This work happens where the fight actually is — in statehouses, in county commissions, at the ballot box. Every dollar goes to that.