The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
The Trump administration declined to invite election observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to witness the midterms, blocking monitors from the regional security group for the first time in more than two decades.
Their absence comes as Democrats and election integrity experts have raised concerns about potential election meddling after the Department of Justice announced plans to send its own monitors.
Washington joins only Russia and Belarus in its decision to exclude OSCE observers.
The OSCE called the U.S. decision “regrettable” and Human Rights Watch said the move “fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcoming elections.”
You’re right. We don’t want to accept it, but you’re 100% right. I’m so goddamn ashamed of my countrymen for just sitting back and going “oh well 🤷♂️ I guess there’s truly nothing we can do.”
Like on one hand I get that people don’t want to die and potentially throw their lives away. But we’ve had too many others be literally executed in the name of “wait and see,” you’d think some of us would be forming militias to storm the goddamn concentration camps that are being set up and filled up with legal citizens.