Can we ask for election help from the United Nations?

[Iwasthere]

I am sure this has already been covered, but can the United Nations come in to at least monitor the process.

[Yavin4]

1. Election help? I want to petition for assylum to Canada. n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

2. The Carter Center has been doing this all over the world for years

In countries where there's a fear of corruption.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. And Ali Velshi on MSNBC just reported that the Carter Center will be getting involved

For the first time ever - they will be "turning inward," seeking to monitor the election in this country when they usually seek to ensure fair elections in developing and "third world" nations...

[alwaysinasnit]

3. Carter Center might help.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/carter-center-us-election-2020-donald-trump-democracy-a9683011.html

The democracy promotion organisation founded by former president Jimmy Carter is to launch its first United States election initiative this year, citing an “erosion” of democracy in the country.

The Carter Centre has monitored more than 110 elections in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia since 1989 as part of democracy promotion efforts around the world. Although there are no plans yet to monitor polls in the US, this will be the first time it has engaged in a US election.

“We are now at a point where we have taken an institutional decision to explore some direct engagement on US election issues. And this is a departure from our whole history trying not to do that,” David Carroll, director of the centre’s Democracy Programme, told The Independent.

In the past, he added, the centre has prioritised countries where there is “a significant potential for an important change in the quality of democracy”, or where democracy is “under severe threat”.

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[Iwasthere]

4. But can't the United Nations help as well?

[link:https://dppa.un.org/en/elections|

[Amishman]

8. They can't do anything meaningful

They are almost powerless, what little authority they have resides in the security council.

It would also be extremely counter productive, having UN at voting sites will at minimum send right wing turnout through the roof. It could even lead to violence.

[DBoon]

5. The right wing would go absolutely berserk

That alone would be a good reason to involve the UN

[RockCreek]

6. I have been wondering the same thing. N/t

[GoCubsGo]

9. No. The UN is a major right-wing boogeyman.

They'll just push any involvement they might have as part of one of their "takeover" conspiracies. It will just make things worse, unfortunately,