Few noticed, but in the year 2000, Mexico and the United States traded places. After nearly two centuries of election fraud, Mexico’s presidential election was praised universally by its political parties and international observers as free, fair, and professional. Four months later, after two centuries as a model democracy, the U.S. election was panned as […]
Robert Pastor
Robert A. Pastor is director of the Center for Democracy and Election Management and a professor at American University. At the Carter Center from 1986–2000, he organized election-observation missions to about 30 countries, including the United States.