Sentence examples for electoral observer from inspiring English sources

But the issue was settled after former President Jimmy Carter, here as an electoral observer, telephoned the office of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel.

Russian MP Alexei Zhuravlyov, a member of an electoral observer mission consisting almost entirely of Russian and European far-right politicians, joined Zakharchenko onstage.

His government shifted attention from festering domestic issues like a surge in homicides by expelling a Spanish lawmaker on Saturday who was here as an electoral observer.

When the voting results were ripped up before the cameras on Tuesday night, it was "a sign of the extreme politicization of the electoral institutions," said Cristian Dan Preda, who headed the European Union's electoral observer mission here.

The government has also worked to restrict the electoral observer missions of the Organization of American States and the Carter Center in Atlanta, which have criticized the government in the past.

The UN electoral observer mission said in a report that the elections took place "in a tense political crisis and a climate of widespread fear and intimidation in parts of the country".

Our estimates, based on evidence gathered by electoral observers, reveal the shocking scale of the problem.

But so far neither these announcements nor the vote-counting process has inspired confidence in electoral observers.

During the vote, the Catholic Church deployed thousands of electoral observers all over this vast central African nation of 70 million.

A team of well-regarded Egyptian electoral observers issued a report Monday documenting incidents of violence and irregularities.

Standing in the mud around the mass of ballots, Congolese electoral observers argued angrily with election officials, insisting that plans to toss out the new ballots were undemocratic.