US Joins Russia, Belarus; Trump Administration Refuses International Election Observers for Midterms
The Justice Department plans up to 1,000 federal monitors as the United States skips a 24-year practice of inviting OSCE observers.
- For the first time in over two decades, the Trump administration has declined to invite the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to observe the November midterm elections.
- Since 2002, the OSCE has monitored every U.S. federal election to provide independent assessments, but the State Department now claims the group should focus its limited resources elsewhere.
- Instead, the Department of Justice plans to deploy 1,000 monitors to polling places in November, while Democratic lawmakers Jamie Raskin and Joe Morelle worry the effort could be misused for intimidation.
- International observers called the refusal "regrettable" and "not in line" with U.S. commitments, placing Washington in a rare position alongside Russia and Belarus in rejecting OSCE monitors.
- Concerns persist that the administration may attempt voter intimidation, as surveys show Americans' confidence in the electoral system has declined significantly under Trump's policies.
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The Trump administration has refused OSCE election observers, who seek to ensure free and fair elections.
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️ — The Trump administration declined to invite OSCE observers to the 2026 midterms, ending more than two decades of international monitoring of U.S. federal elections
The OSCE has observed every U.S. federal election since 2002.Its monitors have no enforcement powers and only observe polling and report on how elections are conducted.
International election monitoring group OSCE has observed every U.S. election since 2002. The Trump administration is excluding them from the midterms
For more than twenty years, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has sent observers to every federal election in the United States. That run began in 2002. It will not continue for the midterms. The Trump administration declined to invite the group, so its monitors will not be at a U.S. election for the first time in more than two decades. According to MS NOW, those monitors usually visit a selection of polling stations and l…
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