The @osce_odihr report on the US election is out: osce.org/files/f/docume…. A great read. It's lucky that Trump seems to have been voted out because if he stayed, there'd be every ground to say that his election was not free and fair.
The report highlights Trump's efforts to "harm public trust in democratic institutions" & his widespread use of the administrative resource. And this here: "There was a widespread perception that federal judges often voted on election-related matters along partisan principles."😳
Check out, also, the section on campaign finance (deeply flawed and open to abuse) & voter disenfranchisement. "These restrictions on voting rights ... contravene principles of universal suffrage,...as provided for by OSCE commitments and other international standards."
Not Turkmenistan, of course, but yeah it's pretty bad. That city upon the hill seems to have fallen into serious neglect. There are potholes all over the place, and some walls are crumbling.
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