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Election observation is a core element of the OSCE\u2019s efforts to promote human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. Every OSCE participating States\u2014including the United States\u2014pledges to invite foreign observers to observe its elections. The United States plays an active role in OSCE election observation missions, both by providing observers for foreign elections as well as by inviting the OSCE to observe every general and midterm election since 2002.

Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, veteran election observer Orest Deychakiwsky, former director of the OSCE\u2019s Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and current OSCE PA member Michael Link, and Deputy Secretary of the State of Connecticut Scott Bates share insights on the origins and value of OSCE election observation, along with the process of election observation from the OSCE and state perspective.