As Donald Trump sows pre-emptive doubt about a free and fair presidential election, an international coalition of democracies would offer the best chance to produce a credible assessment
Lloyd Axworthy is a former Canadian foreign minister and the current chair of the World Refugee and Migration Council. He has led numerous Canadian election monitoring missions, including in Ukraine in 2019. Allan Rock is a former minister of justice and attorney-general of Canada and Canadian ambassador to the United Nations, and a current member of the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity.
International monitoring of American elections is not without precedent. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has been invited toU.S. presidential elections dating back to 2002. But Russia is among OSCE’s members, and the Kremlin might seek to influence the report; indeed, during the 2019 Ukrainian election, the credibility of the OSCE mission was called into question.
With 23 representatives throughout the U.S., Canada’s network of American consulates are also ideally positioned to monitor election fairness there. Those offices could work in co-ordination with international partners to observe and report on the election’s integrity.
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