The OSCE has issued a preliminary report on the U.S. election of November 8, 2022. The OSCE is the ongoing organization formed by the Helsinki Accords nations. It monitors human rights in the countries that signed the Accords.

The Report criticizes U.S. ballot access laws. The chapter is titled “Candidate Registration” and begins on page fourteen. Footnote 76 has a link to the cert petition in Cowen v Raffensperger, the Georgia ballot access case which the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear last month.

Not one daily newspaper in the United States mentioned that the U.S. Supreme Court had refused to hear the case. Therefore, it is very good that the OSCE took note of the case. As readers of this blog probably already know, the issue was the Georgia ballot access law governing U.S. House elections. The law is so draconian, no third party has ever been able to comply with it, since it was passed in 1943. And no independent candidate has been able to comply with it since 1964, and back then, the petition was not due until October, the signatures were not checked, notarization was not needed, and U.S. House district boundaries did not cross county lines. Thanks to ElectionLawBlog for the link.