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Canada News: "Kingsley's appeal to merit principle warranted: running elections requires knowledge



Canadian election officials have established excellent credentials in monitoring elections around the world. It is no coincidence, for example, that Canada was asked to oversee the world's two most high-profile recent elections in new democracies, Ukraine and Iraq.



Monitoring elections in democratically fragile states is tricky business. For instance, how do you deal with a country where the people tasked with overseeing polling booths are hired by the party in power, with no requirement that these appointments be made on the basis of merit?"