The world must not stand by as autocrats steal elections

Former Cambodian politician and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Mu Sochua is the president of the Khmer Movement for Democracy.

There are many ways to steal elections in this new age of autocracy. Some autocrats are slowly turning their country into a one-party state by seizing control of the media, marginalizing civil society, filling the courts with their supporters, and gerrymandering. But in the two countries that held elections in the last year, Venezuela and Cambodia, such subtle strategies were not used.

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