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Re:PandaDoc employees arrested in Belarus after founders pro... by maltalex on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @02:34PM (#24411388)
While I generally agree, I'd like to point out the fact that observing the elections in a western democracy is nothing like observing the elections in a country like Belarus where the president has been in power since 1994.

The elections in Belarus can hardly be called that. There really isn't that much to observe besides the obvious. No number of observers could have changed the results.

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Re:PandaDoc employees arrested in Belarus after founders pro... by hippich on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @03:06PM (#24411799)
I still think it is important to try to observe what can be observed.

For example, thanks to the independent observers we know that the number of ballots reported by the voting place were greater than the total number of people who visited the place during early elections days. Even pushed outside of the building, observers can count number of people walking in and compare to protocols published.

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