The primary aim of CaFFE’s election monitoring agenda is to identify incidents involving violations of electoral law and help determine a conducive atmosphere for
citizens to cast their vote during an election in a free and fair manner. It is the duty of CaFFE and our election observers to impartially report on these incidents without casting a prejudicial opinion to any party or group that violates election laws and disrupts law and order. Importantly, not reporting ‘baseless rumors’ is one of the main principles of CaFFE monitoring therefore we always double-check and use multiple sources to determine the authenticity of any election violation that is reported to us. We ensure and monitor the atmosphere the election is conducted and we give equal importance to Pre-election monitoring and ‘on the day of the election.
CaFFE believes that in order to get an idea and the conditions under which elections are held it is equally important to get an understanding of a pre-election atmosphere that exists in any election area. CaFFE does this and produce
Pre-elections reports and released to the public via the media and on request when contacted by citizens. The reason is that we wish to be accessible to any citizen who wishes to know the existing environment before an election. The theoretical reason behind this is CaFFE believes that there are strong connections between incidents that take place during a pre-election period and the prevailing atmosphere that is created through these incidents in correlation to incidents that happen on the election day and the voting behavior of the electorate on the Election Day.