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Imagine an election process run by the political parties themselves with no independent referee. Gerard Kennedy, MP for Parkdale-High Park, writes:Imagine an election process run by the political parties themselves with no independent referee. Add in a razor's edge margin between shifting coalitions within a few points of one another over the last several elections, which makes every single vote consequential. That was Sunday's presidential election runoff in Ukraine. That was also the challenge for an estimated 3,700 international observers, including at least 280 Canadians, trying to cover 35,000 polls in 26 oblasts (provinces) in this country of 46 million. Read the story here.