a) security conditions allow non-partisan citizen observers and monitors to
evaluate processes without substantial risk to their safety, the safety of their
families or their economic well being;
b) election management bodies and other governmental authorities concerned
with electoral related processes honor the right to participate in government
and public affairs by providing non-partisan citizen election observation and
monitoring organizations access to polling stations and all other election
related facilities and processes in the pre-election, election-day and postelection periods, including by providing accreditation, where it is required for
access, in a timely manner, without proscribed discrimination or unreasonable
restrictions, such as providing less access than allowed to international
election observers, the media or political party and candidate observers;
c) election management bodies and other governmental authorities provide
electoral transparency through timely access to information, including election
results recorded at polling stations as well as aggregated results at higher levels
of electoral administration, and by allowing scrutiny of electoral related activities;
d) political parties, candidates and groups supporting or opposing referendum
initiatives provide timely information about complaints they file concerning
violations of their electoral rights and the electoral challenges they lodge;
e) non-partisan citizen election observation and monitoring organizations can
exercise the freedom to associate with other organizations, both domestic and
international, and cooperate with and/or receive assistance and support from
them, including financial assistance, in order to pursue non-partisan election
observation/monitoring activities;
f) non-partisan citizen election observation and monitoring organizations are free
to seek, receive and impart information, domestically and across borders, via
verbal communications and printed or electronic media, including the Internet;
g) national and international organizations, agencies, foundations and others that
commit to provide funding and/or other assistance for non-partisan election
observation and monitoring by citizen organizations do so in a timely and practical
manner that makes it possible in light of national conditions to employ the most
systematic election observation and monitoring methodologies practicable and
to integrate them into the capacities of the citizen organizations; and
h) election management bodies, other governmental authorities, funders and other
supporters recognize and honor the premise that the information gathered,
analysis performed and conclusions developed by non-partisan citizen election
observation and monitoring organizations belong to the respective citizen nonpartisan observation and monitoring organizations, and those organizations are
responsible for determining in light of legal requirements the timing and manner
for presenting their findings and recommendations.
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