Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

Ambassador Audrey Glover (centre), the Head of the OSCE/ODIHR Limited Election Observation Mission to the U.S. presidential election speaks to journalists in Washington, D.C., 5 November 2008. On the left is ODIHR Spokesperson Jens-Hagen Eschenbaecher. (Photo Courtesy Yuri Gripas)

Counting of ballots in the village of Dabadzveli in the Adjara region of Georgia, during the presidential election, 5 January 2008. (OSCE/Shaun Barcavage)

Members of a polling station in Tashkent wait for voters, during the Uzbekistan presidential election, 23 December 2007. (OSCE/Urdur Gunnarsdottir)

A man looks at information about presidential candidates at a polling station in Tashkent, during the Uzbekistan presidential election, 23 December 2007. (OSCE/Urdur Gunnarsdottir)

An Armenian woman smiles in the village of Noratus, near Lake Sevan, 12 May 2007. Elections to the country's parliament were held on this day. (OSCE/Gunther Neumann)

Voters cast their ballots in a mountain village near Martuni, Lake Sevan, during parliamentary elections in Armenia, 12 May 2007. (OSCE/Gunther Neumann)

OSCE/ODIHR short-term observers during a briefing in Yerevan, 9 May 2007. Parliamentary elections will be held in Armenia on 12 May. (OSCE/Urdur Gunnarsdottir)

Voters wait their turn during parliamentary elections in Bulgaria 26 June 2005. (OSCE)

Left to right: Alexander Veshnyakov, Chairman of Russian Central Election Commission; ODIHR Director Christian Strohal; and Jean-Pierre Kingsley, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, at a Vienna press conference on electoral standards, 15 July 2004. (OSCE/Ayhan Evrensel)

Interpreter Martin Demirovski (left) and ODIHR Director Christian Strohal talk to officals of a polling station in Kumanovo during the 14 April 2004 presidential election in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. (OSCE)

The chairwoman (right) of a polling station in Tbilisi briefs an OSCE observer during parliamentary elections in Georgia, 28 March 2004. (OSCE/Urdur Gunnarsdottir)

Voters casting ballots at a polling station in Moscow during Russia's presidential election, 14 March 2004. (OSCE/Urdur Gunnarsdottir)

This woman in central Moscow was one of many voters using mobile ballot boxes to cast their votes in the Russian presidential election on 14 March 2004. (OSCE/Urdur Gunnarsdottir)

A voter places her ballot into a scanning machine at a polling station in Moscow during the presidential election, 14 March 2004. Introduced as an anti-fraud measure, these machines count the ballots inserted and check that they are correctly filled out. (OSCE/Urdur Gunnarsdottir)

A voter searches for his name on the voters list at a polling station in the village of Sakobo during Georgia's presidential election, 4 January 2004. (OSCE/Lubomir Kotek)

Members of the election observation mission to Georgia at a post-election press conference in Tbilisi, 5 January 2004. From left: Craig Jenness, ODIHR; Demetrio Vulcic, European Parliament; Matyas Eorsy, Council of Europe; and Bruce George, OSCE PA. (OSCE/Lubomir Kotek)

Members of the election observation mission to Georgia at a press conference in Tbilisi, 5 January 2004. From left: Craig Jenness, ODIHR; Demetrio Vulcic, European Parliament; Matyas Eorsy, Council of Europe; and Bruce George, OSCE PA. (OSCE/Lubomir Kotek)

Election officials at a polling station in Mashnaari, Georgia, prepare to count the ballots after voting ended in the presidential election on 4 January 2004. (OSCE/Lubomir Kotek)