Fusion Search  UN Affiliate Will Monitor U.S. Elections
PHOTO: A woman who works in the housekeeping department of a Las
Vegas Strip casino casts her ballot at an early voting polling
placce, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, in Las Vegas.  (Julie
Jacobson/AP Photo)  The upcoming presidential elections will be
observed by election monitors from countries that have their own
issues with democracy.  The Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a group that has observed U.S.
elections since 2002, is sending dozens of monitors from around
the world to monitor the presidential and congressional
elections in the United States this November.  As CNS News
reports, 12 of those monitors come from countries that Freedom
House ranks "not free," specifically Azerbaijan, Belarus,
Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and six come from countries ranked
"partly free."  The highly regarded democracy watchdog notes
that Kazakhstan's 71-year-old president recently won a new five-
year term in a snap election with more than 96 pe