According to this report, the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations is the world’s “keystone” international agreement to ensure the honesty and transparency of elections—and that during this past year alone was used to protect the 8 November 2015 election in Myanmar with 10,500 international observers, and in Russia itself where during the September parliamentary elections, 117 foreign observers were credited to monitor its voting, including 63 American diplomatic officials.
