Carter Center to monitor midterms in Georgia's Fulton County

Carter Center employee Jordan McNairy collects signed codes of conduct from volunteer election observers training on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022 at the Carter Center in Atlanta. The center is training nonpartisan election observers to review how Fulton County, Georgia, handles elections. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)

Trainers laid out the do’s and don’ts of being an election monitor on Saturday at the Carter Center in Atlanta: Do watch carefully and note things that are unusual and how poll workers handle them. Don’t try to instruct or correct poll workers or otherwise intervene in how elections are run.

The training isn’t unusual for the center, co-founded in 1982 by former President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter. Elections monitoring internationally has been part of The Carter Center’s operations since 1989, observing 113 elections in 39 countries.

But what’s new is doing it in The Carter Center’s hometown.