On November 13, 2023, the Liberia Elections Observation Network (LEON)1 will begin deploying
teams of observers and coordinators to all 15 counties and 73 electoral districts to observe the second
round of the presidential election on November 14, 2023. This deployment constitutes 904 short-
term observers (STOs) and 53 field coordinators (FCs) who will be supported by a team of 73 long-
term observers (LTOs) and 18 mobile field observers (MFOs). LEON will continue implementing
its sample-based observation (SBO) of Election Day activities, which is guided by the Liberian legal
framework and international election observation standards and founded on the principles of
neutrality, nonpartisanship, impartiality, integrity, and independence.
The SBO approach is a proven, statistically based methodology that has been used in more than 40
countries for over three decades to evaluate the quality and integrity of an electoral process. The
comprehensive approach focuses on assessing the entire electoral cycle. Conducting an SBO means
that LEON’s observation data will be collected from a statistically relevant sample of polling places
from all 73 electoral districts for internal analysis and cross-verification. LEON intends to produce
an assessment that can be publicly released and thereby inform all voters of its finding.