“Everts, head of OSCE’s long-term election observer mission, said the group is nonpartisan, comes down on no side of the voter ID debate and that U.S. elections are secure enough to where his monitors don’t need to join registered and authorized poll watchers already inside.”

This appears to directly contradict Alexander Bolton’s report in The Hill on October 20 that “United Nations-affiliated election monitors from Europe and central Asia will be at polling places around the U.S. looking for voter suppression activities by conservative groups, a concern raised by civil rights groups during a meeting this week,” and that the OSCE would be monitoring “array of activities, including potential disputes at polling places.”

And who were those “civil rights groups” raising concerns?  The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the ACLU, the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, and Project Vote, according to Project Vote Executive Director Michael Slater.

Recall that back in March, NAACP President Ben Jealous and Senior VP for Advocacy Hilary Shelton led a delegation to the UN Human Rights Council to complain about Voter ID laws and urge UN monitors “to come in and observe” the alleged “suppression” at the polls.  That request was rebuffed.

Now OSCE’s Everts denies association with Project Vote and other partisan groups.

Looks like Bolton and The Hill, whose story sparked a huge backlash against the UN and OSCE, were misinformed.

Here are the locations where OSCE election observers will be deployed, no doubt in full compliance with all applicable state laws.

“Everts, head of OSCE’s long-term election observer mission, said the group is nonpartisan, comes down on no side of the voter ID debate and that U.S. elections are secure enough to where his monitors don’t need to join registered and authorized poll watchers already inside.”

This appears to directly contradict Alexander Bolton’s report in The Hill on October 20 that “United Nations-affiliated election monitors from Europe and central Asia will be at polling places around the U.S. looking for voter suppression activities by conservative groups, a concern raised by civil rights groups during a meeting this week,” and that the OSCE would be monitoring “array of activities, including potential disputes at polling places.”

And who were those “civil rights groups” raising concerns?  The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the ACLU, the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, and Project Vote, according to Project Vote Executive Director Michael Slater.

Recall that back in March, NAACP President Ben Jealous and Senior VP for Advocacy Hilary Shelton led a delegation to the UN Human Rights Council to complain about Voter ID laws and urge UN monitors “to come in and observe” the alleged “suppression” at the polls.  That request was rebuffed.

Now OSCE’s Everts denies association with Project Vote and other partisan groups.

Looks like Bolton and The Hill, whose story sparked a huge backlash against the UN and OSCE, were misinformed.

Here are the locations where OSCE election observers will be deployed, no doubt in full compliance with all applicable state laws.