Swiss help observe election
Yves Nidegger of Switzerland is currently on the ground in the US as part of an international delegation monitoring the voting process. The lawyer and member of the House of Representatives from the conservative right Swiss People’s Party is joined by three of his parliamentary colleagues and 433 other observers from around the world sent by the OSCEExternal link. The delegation is nearly eight times as large as the one dispatched in 2012.
What does the job involve?
“The observer makes sure that everyone can vote in good conditions, that there are booths and an adequate number of ballots,” Nidegger’s colleague Hugues Hiltpold of the centre-right Radical party told the press.
Hiltpold is on the ground in Pennsylvania, while Nidegger is observing voting in upstate New York’s Erie County, according to the Tribune de Genève newspaper.
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