October 7, 2020, 1:39 pm
By The Carter Center
Engaging in the U.S. is more complicated than in other countries because we don’t have a centralized election administration – we have a patchwork of about 10,000 jurisdictions across 50 states. (That, by the way, is one of several areas in which the U.S. falls short of international election standards.)
January 8, 2018, 4:52 pm
By The Carter Center
The Carter Center has observed more than 100 elections around the world. How do we decide where to go? What does an election observer do? Avery Davis-Roberts, who manages the Center’s Democratic Election Standards Project, explains.
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October 5, 2016, 10:31 am
By The Carter Center
David Carroll, director of the Carter Center’s Democracy Program, has been in the field for about 40 of the Center’s election observation missions and helped manage another 30 or so from headquarters in Atlanta.
Avery Davis-Roberts is an associate director in the Democracy Program and the head of the Center’s U.S. elections project.
In advance of the U.S. presidential election …
December 1, 2015, 6:11 pm
By The Carter Center
Last May in Guyana, The Carter Center celebrated its 100th election observation mission. In this Q&A, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who led the Center’s first election mission to Panama in 1989 and 38 of the 99 that followed, discusses three decades of elections, remembering ones that made history, ones that put his life in danger, and one that brought tears to his eyes.
April 24, 2015, 4:07 pm
By The Carter Center
David Carroll, director of the Carter Center’s Democracy Program, has been in the field for about 40 of the Center’s election observation missions and helped manage another 30 or so from headquarters in Atlanta. On the eve of the Center’s 100th election mission, which will take place in Guyana on May 11, he sat down to explain how election observation works and how the field has changed since 1989, when the Center began its election work.
November 8, 2013, 10:30 am
By The Carter Center
Carter Center expert David Pottie explains the importance of Nepal’s upcoming election and the role of Carter Center observers.
