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Who Is Bolat Bersebayev and Why Is He Monitoring Our Elections? The New American 02 November 2012 Who are Bolat Bersebayev of Kazakhstan, Elchin Musaeyev of Azerbaijan, and their OSCE teammates who are "monitoring" the U.S. elections? ... As reported previously by The New American, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot has warned the OSCE monitors that they will risk criminal prosecution if they interfere in the state’s election procedures. Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz has also warned OSCE that its monitors must obey Iowa election laws or face arrest (see here and here). Janez Lenarcic, the director of the...

With polls showing that Republican Mitt Romney has significantly eroded President Obama's once-robust lead among women, both parties have turned their attention in the final days of the 2012 campaign to a key slice of the women's vote that could be crucial to victory - millions of potential "Obama defectors." Women who voted for the Democrat in 2008, and are considering jumping ship this year, are a target of impassioned campaigning as Republicans and Democrats aim for the margins in battleground states. Nancy Keenan, who heads NARAL Pro-Choice America, the nation's largest reproductive-rights advocacy group, said Monday that her organization...

One Tree Hill star Sophia Bush has long been involved in political issues, including touring college campuses to encourage young people to vote to making appearances in Texas in support of the 2008 Obama campaign. Apparently Bush even contemplated a career in politics herself, until coming to the conclusion she couldn’t make much of a difference.