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Handbook for Long-Term Election Observers

A guide for long-term election observers on ODIHR election observation missions.

This handbook provides long-term election observers (LTOs) with an overview of their role, duties, and responsibilities in the specific context of election observation as conducted by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).

The following topics are covered:

  • Quick-start information for LTOs;
  • The role of LTOs in observing elections;
  • Reporting;
  • Preparing for short-term election observers;
  • Administration and finance; and 
  • The role of LTOs in closing down a mission.
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OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Publisher:
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Our work:
Elections
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Elections

ODIHR supports electoral reform processes in Mediterranean Partner States by helping to ensure that legislation and practices meet international obligations and commitments, as well as through the training of citizen election observers.
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ODIHR works to promote and make accessible a number of its human dimension tools and publications in Arabic to the OSCE Mediterranean Partners as a basis for the exchange of good practices and transfer of knowledge from the OSCE region.
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Election handbooks

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