Member of a polling station committee for Belarus' presidential election empty a ballot box prior to counting in Minsk, 11 October 2015. (OSCE/Thomas Rymer)
A voter's finger being scanned at a polling station in Bishkek during Kyrgyzstan's parliamentary elections on 4 October, 2015. A new biometric voter identification system was first used in these elections. (OSCE/Thomas Rymer)
Tana de Zulueta (l), Head of the ODIHR election observation mission for the 25 May early presidential elections in Ukraine, and Michael Georg Link (r), Director of ODIHR, taking part in the discussion of follow-up to the report at the roundtable event in Kyiv, 14 July 2014. (Victor E. Glasko)
85-year old voter in Krasnoilsk, Chernivitsi region in Ukraine casts her vote during the early Presidential elections, 25 May, 2014. (Michael Forster Rothbart)
Voters in Skopje cast their ballots during the early parliamentary and second round presidential elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 27 April 2014. (OSCE/Thomas Rymer)
Tatyana Bogussevich (l), ODIHR’s Senior Election Adviser, and Beata Martin-Rozumilowicz, Head of the Elections Department at ODIHR, presented the second edition of the “Guidelines for Reviewing a Legal Framework for Elections” at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Warsaw, 30 September 2013. (OSCE/Shiv Sharma)
A man scanning the voters list for his name outside a polling station in Elbasan during the Albanian parliamentary elections, 23 June 2013. (OSCE/Thomas Rymer)
Dame Audrey Glover, Head of the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission to the 28 October 2012 parliamentary elections in Ukraine, speaks to a journalist at the Mission’s opening press conference, Kyiv, 12 September 2012. (OSCE/Sergey Kazmiruk)
Corien Jonker (r), Head of the OSCE/ODIHR Limited Election Observation Mission (LEOM) to the parliamentary elections and early presidential elections in Serbia, examines the list of voters at a polling station in Staro Sajmište, Belgrade, 6 May 2012. (OSCE/Shiv Sharma)
A polling station official returns the identification card of a voter before handing out ballot papers in Tunisia’s parliamentary 2011 elections, Tunis, 23 October 2011. (European Parliament/Ezequiel Scagnetti)
Voting materials for the 20 August 2009 presidential election in Afghanistan being sent from Mara village to Sighwar village in Pahshir on donkeys and the backs of their owners, 19 August 2009. (Jason Toy/UNDP)
Women in Jowzjan province, Afghanistan, reading mock ballots produced as part of a voter education campaign in advance of the ODIHR-supported 20 August 2009 Presidential and Provincial Council elections, 28 July 2009. (United Nations Development Programme)
An ODIHR media monitor checks the newspaper coverage of candidates and parties ahead of the 3 June local elections in Moldova, 1 June 2007. (OSCE/Curtis Budden)
An ODIHR election observer speaks with an official at a polling station in Yerevan during parliamentary elections in Armenia, 12 May 2007. (OSCE/Urdur Gunnarsdottir)
Voters dressed up as doctors to show their support for cuts and changes to the government prepare to vote in parliamentary elections in Latvia, 7 October 2006. (OSCE/Urdur Gunnarsdottir)
A pro-independence rally in Pogdorica, 18 May, the last rally before the referendum in the Republic of Montenegro on 21 May 2006. (OSCE/Urdur Gunnarsdottir)
Polling board members in Fairfax, Virginia, introduce the operation of touch screen voting machines. One of the features of electronic voting there is the paper trail, which allows for recounting.
(OSCE/Urdur Gunnarsdottir)
Representatives of the Free and Fair Elections Foundation for Afghanistan explains to the media their plan to deploy 2,000 domestic observers for the 9 October 2004 presidential election. (OSCE/Alexander Nitzsche)
Members of the ODIHR Election Observation Mission monitor electronic media in Skopje prior to the second round of presidential election held on 28 April 2004. (OSCE/Urdur Gunnarsdottir)
Traditional Russian Matreshka dolls and dolls portraying President Vladimir Putin for sale in a street in Moscow, 6 December 2003, a day before the State Duma elections. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)
Mobile voting gave the elderly Azeri voters who were not able to go to a polling station on 15 October the chance to use their democratic right. (OSCE/Astrid Senheitel)