U.S. election was fair, despite voting obstacles -OSCE rights group
WASHINGTON- The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said on Wednesday that human rights were respected during Tuesday's U.S. presidential election and there were few cases of intimidation, despite recent changes to election rules in several states that created unnecessary burdens for voters.
"Some legal and administrative decisions appear to have had a partisan flavor," Ambassador Audrey Glover, head of the OSCE election observation mission to the United States, said at a news conference on Wednesday. "These recent changes ... led to a lack of clarity regarding the rules."
Tuesday's astonishing contest, in which Republican candidate Donald Trump beat his long-favored opponent, Hillary Clinton, to become the 45th president of the United States, was the first election to occur in the United States in more than 50 years without the full protections of the landmark Voting Rights Act.
