We know that some ASEAN countries have offered to provide election observers on several occasions.
The bloc of nations, known as S.A.D.C., offered to send election observers to monitor the vote counting process and a possible runoff.
Hoping to appease the protesters, this month he offered to hold elections on 14 November but that plan fell through after further redshirt demands.
The protesters have demanded that the government step down and hold a new election within 15 days, rejecting a compromise under which Mr. Abhisit offered to hold an election at the end of the year, one year before the expiration of his term in office.
By the time Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva offered to hold an election in November, it appeared that compromise was no longer possible, and the violent eviction followed.
Mr. Abhisit offered to hold an election on Nov. 14, much later than the 30-day deadline the protesters had demanded, but which would cut short his four-year term by more than a year.
In 1996, with Yeltsin's popularity rating down to four per cent, a circle of wealthy bankers — the Magnificent Seven, or the Moscow oligarchs, as they are alternately known — slyly offered to bankroll his election campaign against a Communist opponent.
A senior Kurdish PYD source who offered to assist with election coverage as late as Sunday night echoed this view before retracting his offer on Monday.
Well, it's become an article of faith among many conservatives that Sen. John McCain cost himself the election when, in the late stages of the 2008 campaign, he didn't make greater use of the Rev. Wright controversy, and all of the attendant racial dog whistles it offered, to win the election.
Nermin Nikšić, the federation prime minister, has shrugged off calls for his government to resign, but under the increasing pressure of protests has offered to call snap elections.
