[Routasydän]

Originally Posted by Milesian

Regardless of Putin or the others in the election, I can't help but feel that these "observers" are truly an insidious bunch of nameless goons. What is their purpose, who do they answer to and what are the motives of their employers - that they can just walk into sovereign states and tell them this is wrong, that isn't being done according to their standards, beggars belief.

The Russian elections are a farce?
Very well, maybe so. And wasn't the American election that put Bush into power also a farce with serious questions being raised about vote rigging?
Where were these faceless "observers" then? I don't remember the Americans being reported to some unelected international quango then.

There are international observers at American elections as well.