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CLAO
Founded in 1989 to
serve the USA and Lebanon.
THE COUNCIL OF LEBANESE AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS
E-mail: clao@clao.com
1-888-4 CLAO 89
Internet: www.clao.com
CLAO TO
MONITOR THE LEBANESE ELECTIONS
May 03,
2005
The Council of
Lebanese American Organizations (CLAO) will be monitoring the upcoming
parliamentary elections in Lebanon. The
CLAO team is scheduled to gather in Beirut towards the last week of May.
The delegation will work with several local Lebanese groups and
non-governmental organizations as well as international election monitors in
the field.
The CLAO team
will collect its information through a variety of methods, including but not
limited to:
1) Interviews
with experts and electoral officials.
2) Assessment of obtainable electoral data
related to registration rates, political independence of electoral
officials, vote tabulation precision, registry purging, and other potential
and actual voting irregularities.
3) Meetings
beforehand with a variety of ordinary voters and conducting of follow-up
exit polling.
CLAO will issue
a report associated with its findings which will be made available to the
media and will later be submitted in separate report format to the
US Department of State and the United Nations.
As an organization committed to democracy, CLAO
places great emphasis on promoting the democratic process through sound and
internationally acceptable elections.
CLAO’s main objectives in its election
observation activities are to ensure that the Lebanese parliamentary
elections are free and fair now that the Syrian occupation has officially
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