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election monitoring  

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  • Election monitoring is the process by which external or noninterested actors evaluate the legitimacy of balloting. Credible elections are central to democracy, and election observers aid in the acceptance of polling as relatively free of manipulation or free and fair. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Election Monitoring]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/election_monitoring

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