00:00The Trump administration has refused to invite international election monitors from the OSCE
00:06for the upcoming November midterms, breaking a two-decade democratic oversight practice.
00:12For the first time since 2002, observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
00:20will be absent from U.S. congressional elections following the White House's decision.
00:25Rights organizations and opposition lawmakers denounce the move as an eruption of transparency
00:32expressing heightened concern over voter protection as the Justice Department plans to deploy its own federal agents
00:39to polling sites amid record-low presidential approval ratings.
