Welcome to Democratic Election Standards

The Democratic Election Standards project aims to build consensus on obligations for democratic elections and on detailed criteria for assessment. Learn More

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EOS

The Election Obligations and Standards (EOS) database is a searchable resource that consolidates nearly 200 sources of public international law related to human...

Templates and Training

The Carter Center has developed many resources to help citizens and election observers apply an obligations-based framework to real elections around the world. ...

Reports and Publications

The Democratic Election Standards initiative's handbooks and other thematic publications, along with the Democracy Program's final reports from election obser...

ELMO

ELMO is the Carter Center's open-source mobile data collection and reporting system, built specifically with election observation in mind. ELMO, which stands ...