He has been formed by multiple trips to Haiti working with the poor, working with the homeless in Boston and DC, and non-partisan monitoring of the Palestinian Elections in 2006 with the Nonviolent Peaceforce.
This year, the more likely problem is voter intimidation, perhaps including by partisan election monitors.
Wiping their eyes in exhaustion, the three members of the elections board stood up in satisfaction when the counting was done and shook hands with the partisan observers who had monitored their every move.
Just after The New York Times announced it would appoint somebody to monitor the partisan opinion media more closely, and right after editors were chastened for reacting too slowly to buzzworthy news scoops launched by the conservative media, the right-wing press went bonkers last week.
I call it the oil and gas administration," says Charles Lewis of the non-partisan Center for Public Integrity, which monitors campaign contributions.
"Pope's Gender Comments Underscore Uneasy Fit with Partisan Politics," The Christian Science Monitor, October 5, 2016.
Monitors can be partisan — attached to political parties or candidates — or nonpartisan.
In our day, the partisans of Hobbes might be expected to favor the unitary executive, the preemptive use of military force and careful state monitoring of religion; the partisans of Rousseau would likely favor a limited executive, diplomacy over military engagement and a benign indulgence of religion.
The Monitor argued that a partisan response would not carry the same weight in the public's mind as one issued by, for example, the Ministry of Health.
"You are helping the corporations and the politicians," he said, with all the partisan hacks screaming at each other instead of monitoring political power and corporate corruption.
The Independent Budget Office, a non-partisan city agency that monitors the budget, estimated that the contract could wind up costing the city even more money.
