Carter Centre to launch 1st-ever US election initiative.
“Until the last 10 years, we wouldn’t have thought of the US in that category. But it’s been increasingly the view of the CC that the state of democracy in the US has been eroding.” independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
“Until the last 10 years, we wouldn’t have thought of the US in that category. But it’s been increasingly the view of the CC that the state of democracy in the US has been eroding.” independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
"We are now at a point where we have taken an institutional decision to explore some direct engagement on US election issues. And this is a departure from our whole history trying not to do that”
The Carter Centre has prioritizes countries where there is “a significant potential for an important change in the quality of democracy”, or where democracy is “under severe threat”. CC believes there is a significant threat to the US in 2020.
"The decision by the Carter Centre to depart from its decades-long practice of non-involvement in US elections ... is yet another sign of growing concern among the country’s former leaders at the threat to democracy posed by the Trump administration."
Voting rights groups are alarmed by the Trump admin's stance on mail-in ballots
"we see increasingly these problems that we never really saw on any scale 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”
"we see increasingly these problems that we never really saw on any scale 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”
