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- politics@sh.itjust.works
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.”
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What’s being done to counter this?
Fuck all.
Holy shit. The official observers will be from Russia and China.
tell me you are going to commit voting fraud without actually telling me you are going to commit voting fraud
At this point, they could tell Americans they’re going to commit voter fraud, and Americans wouldn’t do shit about it.
Im 1000 miles from the nearest place i could do anything about it. What exactly would you like me to do?
Organize for a National labor strike
My feeling is that they are trying to increase their ability to (falsely) claim that the elections were stolen (again). I would think having outside observers would be something you’d want to get rid of so that it’s easier to convince people of the lie/scam/coup.
U.S. elections are very robust especially compared to other western democracies’ systems. That won’t stop him from trying or even having some effect.
“i WoNdEr iF hEs gONnA rIg tHE eLEcTiOn gUys 🤡🤡🤡”
Americans, watching Trump actively rig the election
MAGAs in my family are so far lost in the sauce that they truly believe he’s the most fair and honest president in American history. They are so caught up in the right wing news machine that they don’t know how the regime’s policies are affecting the rest of America, and if they did, I don’t think they’d care because they’re old, rich, and have winning complexions.
“Refusing election observers is usually something that countries in a position of weakness do, when they know that they have corrupt or unfair elections,” said Dan Baer, a former U.S. ambassador to the OSCE during the Obama administration. “It’s very strange for the United States, which has been historically a standard setter in free and fair elections, to refuse observers.”
Strange? Has this doofus been around for the past 6 years?
“Raised concerns”
That’ll help. Well done.
Say it with me, America.
We.
Are.
Fucked.
you’re not fucked. just lazy. you know this shit is going to happen yet you sit on your fat american asses anyway.
do something! anything! take a literal page from France and exercise your right to protest! riot! any-fucking-thing
What boggles the mind is Trump’s followers will not see the glaring hypocrisy here, assuming they hear about this at all.
A conservative is a fascist. That’s why it is not possible for them to see anything wrong with fascist moves. Even never-Trumper conservatives will support this, because all conservatives are fascist by nature.
or rather fascists like to call themselves conservatives, even though they’re not
Yup.
I like how this guy breaks it down, but the evidence starts from how they are raised.
They are going to lose big even with their cheating, they are so far underwater here, they will lose the house, probably the senate.
Their approval rating is hovering around the ebola virus, right behind covid.
The problem is that there isn’t way to enforce the vote anymore. Every institution and agency was allowed to be captured.
Todd Blanche, Tom Homan, and Kash Patel are not going to team up with SCOTUS and bring down Trump or MAGA. The military has been purged and is flying Nazi eagles and just gave the sieg heiling south African immigrant that stole all of our data keys to all of our top secret drone warfare platforms.
The other tech bros are part of this same program, and have been rolled into the military as their own unit, complete with their own ranks.
Once people have that level of clearance and information, the damage is done. The country we knew is dead and dark times are ahead. And it gets darker by the day with everyone playing “election”
Why can’t states call for OSCE monitors? States are in charge of elections, not the Fed, and certainly not the Fed DOJ.
I suspect if they tried, the OSCE monitors wouldn’t be allowed to enter the US.
Conservatism is fascism. Always has been. These fascists need to be erased in a permanent way.
It is immoral to keep any relationship with a conservative. Disown them. Delete them.
You know why right?
Nothing says “integrity” like evading 3rd-party, external auditors.
I thought integrity was publicly out the window when there was a PSA about getting $5000 if you vote a certain way.
Yes, because obviously they are accounting for Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle! Observing the result may change it!
This might be the most apt metaphor. The election is both legitimate and illegitimate until we open it up and take a look at it.
I suggest every Democrat voter put MAGA hat on so your vote is more like to be counted instead of being put in the trash and replaced by pre-filled paper.
Oh hey, who could’ve seen that one coming from President “Cheat like hell”?
