After enduring stupendous amounts of moralizing from its friends and allies in the OSCE, Russia is finally getting its own back. A Russian observer joined the OSCE mission to monitor last week’s British elections. The mission also includes observers from Serbia, Macedonia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Ukraine.
Ostensibly, according to the OSCE, the aim of the mission is actually to show emerging democracies how to run an election properly:
"We are expecting to learn from an observation of the elections so that other, emerging democracies can see how systems work and how problems are dealt with in well-established democracies."
I guess that Britain’s shambolic postal voting system will provide them with a lesson in democracy, of a sort. Britain, remember, is a country in which voters are regularly (and legally) encouraged by candidates to return their postal votes directly to the candidates, who will then pass them on to the authorities. Without tampering with them. Ever.
