"Hundreds" of volunteers were involved in MOE's initial offline activities, prior to its development of an online component of election monitoring.

[1]: 162 As of 2024[update], the director of MOE was Alejandra Barrios Cabrera, a former student leader of "La Séptima Papeleta" (The Seventh Ballot), a citizens' movement created in response to the assassination of four presidential candidates prior to the 1990 election.

[1]: 171–172 Prior to each Colombian election, MOE publishes maps on its website showing the risks of electoral fraud or violence (murders, violent attacks, kidnapping) against community leaders and politicians in each of the approximately 1100 municipalities, along with details data and reports.

[3] MOE cooperates in research projects related to election monitoring and election-related violence, including a study in 2020 on the effectiveness of social media advertising of electoral monitoring activities[2] and a 2020 study together with the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy on electoral violence against community and political leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic.

[4] On 3 August 2024, MOE published an analysis of the all the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election results publicly available at the time, finding that the disaggregated data provided by the opposition was self-consistent, and called for the Venezuelan National Electoral Council to publish the polling station tally sheets and audit the full chain of transmission of information.