DISINFO: OSCE is against Donald Trump

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DISINFO: OSCE is against Donald Trump

SUMMARY

Once Trump has announced the fraud, the OSCE said: “We recognise the outcome of elections, you undermine faith in democracy.” So, the OSCE is against Trump.

RESPONSE

This is part of an ongoing pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign on the US election and an attempt to portray flaws in the democratic system fitting the pro-Kremlin narrative against Western order and democratic values.

The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which has been observing US elections since 2002, found the 2020 general election to be "competitive and well managed" despite the logistical issues presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. "Baseless allegations of systematic deficiencies, notably by the incumbent president, including on election night, harm public trust in democratic institutions," the OSCE report says. However, it would be wrong to assume, that OSCE is against Trump based on this statement.

In fact, the second group of international election observers from the Organisation of American States (OAS) reported its members did not see any evidence of fraud despite President Trump’s assertions that widespread fraud affected the election. The OAS’s preliminary report, released last week, was based on 28 experts from 13 countries who witnessed the election proceedings in Washington, D.C., and four states: Georgia, Iowa, Maryland and Michigan. The expansiveness of the observation was inhibited by the COVID-19 pandemic, the organisation noted.

See more disinformation cases on the US presidential elections 2020 and their debunking.

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