Most official reports accept that not all candidates had equal media coverage and that some election monitoring groups had restricted access to perform their role.

A citizen-driven election monitoring platform was created in 2009 to report on voting habits and voter turnout.

It reported that the claims of rigging the election were not supported by the various international election monitoring organizations in attendance.

Such actions towards a sovereign state hardly comply with standards of international law, according to the same election monitoring body.

More recently, she has pioneered research on election monitoring, producing new data and analysis that raises questions about its usefulness and effectiveness.