ODIHR International Electoral Observer Activities
- During the United States elections, 2012—following media reports that tied ODIHR international electoral observers to the United Nations and accused them of having plans to interfere in the election—the observers, who said they were in the United States to review several benchmarks of democratic elections, were blocked from polls in nine of the 50 states—Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Special coordinator for the OSCE mission, Joao Soares, a member of the Portuguese parliament, said he would issue the official post-election statement on Tuesday's U.S. election on the following Thursday.
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