"Elections are not about speed and cost," said Lloyd Levine, a consultant for the California Assembly's committee on elections, which has been monitoring voting changes across the state.
Systematically monitoring voting is hard because it is supervised by local officials, making it tough for groups to highlight concerns quickly, says Derek Willis, a data journalist and developer at ProPublica and part of the Electionland team.
And it's not at all clear that Democratic Party and Obama campaign officials, allowed inside polling places as partisan observers under state election laws, will be carefully monitoring voting machine practices, either.
In some ways, at least in Ohio in 2008, the Obama campaign was nearly as active in monitoring voting systems as they claim, according to two surprising observers: Harvey Wasserman and Robert Fitrakis, The Free Press editors who are hardly Democratic Party shills.
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At the moment the Supreme Court suspended democracy by stopping the Florida vote count, we lost the moral authority to monitor vote counting anywhere in the world.
Ghani said shortly after that his observers would continue to monitor vote tallying, and that stopping the count would be an insult to voters.
In 1999 he helped monitor voting in Indonesia and East Timor for the National Democratic Institute and the Carter Center.
At the same time, lawyers across Florida are preparing to closely monitor voting on Tuesday.
This story includes information from ProPublica's Electionland project, which monitors voting problems around the country.
