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Carter Centre To Launch First-Ever US Election Initiative, Citing ‘Erosion’ Of Democracy In US
Exclusive: Democracy Promotion Group Founded By Jimmy Carter Will Launch US-Focused Initiative For First Time In Its History
independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
Carter Centre To Launch First-Ever US Election Initiative, Citing ‘Erosion’ Of Democracy In US
Exclusive: Democracy Promotion Group Founded By Jimmy Carter Will Launch US-Focused Initiative For First Time In Its History
independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
"The democracy promotion organisation founded by former president #JimmyCarter 💙 is to launch its first-ever #UnitedStates #election initiative this year, citing an “erosion” of democracy in the country. The @CarterCenter has monitored more than 110 #elections in the... 
... #MiddleEast, #EastAfrica, #LatinAmerica, and #Asia since 1989 as part of #democracy promotion efforts around the world. Although there are no plans yet to monitor #polls in the #US, this will be the first time it has engaged in a US #election at all."
"We are now at a point where we have taken an institutional decision to explore some direct engagement on #USElection issues. And this is a departure from our whole history trying not to do that,” David Carroll, director of the centre’s Democracy Programme, told The Independent."
... In the past, he added, the centre has prioritised countries where there is “a significant potential for an important change in the quality of democracy,” or where democracy is “under severe threat”.
"The @CarterCenter is still in the early stages of deciding exactly what...
"The @CarterCenter is still in the early stages of deciding exactly what...
... its #US mission will look like or who will be involved. But it will likely focus on raising awareness and analysis on some of the issues arising in this year’s #election cycle, such as #MailInBallots."
“And we see increasingly these problems that we never really thought...
“And we see increasingly these problems that we never really thought...
... [we’d see] in the #US, but we see them internationally all the time, where there's just a great deal of distrust and a lack of awareness.”
#JimmyCarter #Democracy #2020Elections #UnitedStates #Elections #MailInVoting #Elections2020
#JimmyCarter #Democracy #2020Elections #UnitedStates #Elections #MailInVoting #Elections2020
"President Carter was awarded the #NobelPeacePrize in 2002 “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development” #JimmyCarter 🥇
