UN To Oversee U.S. Elections On Behalf Of Hillary Clinton

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe aims to send 500 international observers to observe November's U.S. presidential election, a tenfold increase from the number the group deployed in 2012.



A coalition of more than 200 U.S. civil rights groups urged the OSCE in a letter released on Tuesday to provide even more than the 500 observers the OSCE requested based on an assessment it conducted in May. The actual observers will be dispatched by the international security and rights organization's 57 participating states.



The letter from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights said the OSCE's role was "even more critical" in light of the U.S. Justice Department's July announcement, first reported by Reuters, that it would deploy election observers to far fewer polling sites this year than in previous elections.



Civil rights advocates say voters are more likely to face racial bias at the polls in November than they have in 50 years, because of voting laws that several states passed after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the landmark anti-discrimination 1965 Voting Rights Act three years ago.



Supporters of the laws say they are necessary to combat voter fraud.