特朗普政府拒绝邀请欧洲安全与合作组织的选举观察员见证中期选举，这是二十多年来首次阻止该地区安全组织的监督员入境。
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.
他们的缺席正值民主党人和选举诚信专家在司法部宣布派遣自己的监督员计划后，对潜在的选举干预提出担忧之际。
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.
华盛顿在决定排除欧洲安全与合作组织观察员的问题上，仅与俄罗斯和白俄罗斯为伍。
Washington joins only Russia and Belarus in its decision to exclude OSCE observers.
欧安组织称美国的决定“令人遗憾”，人权观察组织表示这一举措“加剧了人们对即将到来的选举存在严重人权问题的担忧。”
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.”
参议院外交关系委员会首席民主党参议员、新罕布什尔州民主党人珍妮·沙欣告诉MS NOW，政府的决定“有损公众对美国安全可靠选举制度的信任。”
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told MS NOW the administration’s decision “risks undermining public trust in America’s safe and secure election system.”
她说：“特朗普政府决定不邀请国际观察员来美国，这与定义我们选举的自由、民主和透明精神背道而驰。”她补充说，美国应当“要求自己遵守我们期望任何其他民主国家遵守的相同标准。”
“The Trump administration’s decision not to invite international observers to the United States is deeply antithetical to the spirit of freedom, democracy and transparency that defines our elections,” she said, adding that the U.S. should hold “itself to the same standards that we would expect of any other democracy.”
当被问及为何今年不邀请观察员时，国务院发言人表示，欧安组织“应将其有限的资源集中在能产生最大影响的选举上。”自2002年以来，欧安组织观察了美国的每一次联邦选举。欧安组织监督员通常会视察一些投票站，并就选举如何进行发布报告，以及其他活动。监督员不干涉且没有执法权，他们进入投票站的权限由各州决定。
Asked why the U.S. did not invite observers this year, a State Department spokesperson said OSCE “should focus its limited resources on elections where it can have the greatest impact.”The OSCE has observed every federal election in the U.S. since 2002. OSCE monitors typically visit some polling stations and issue a report about how the elections were conducted, among other activities. Monitors do not interfere and have no enforcement power, with their access to polling stations decided by each state.
在特朗普第一任期内，欧安组织观察员受邀监督2018年的中期选举；最近，他们又对2024年大选进行了监督，并评价此次选举“组织有序”，各候选人也得以“在全国范围内自由开展竞选活动”。欧安组织在声明中指出，特朗普政府这一决定“不符合”美国对欧安组织其他成员国所作出的承诺——各成员国均同意邀请观察员监督本国选举。
OSCE observers were invited to observe the 2018 midterms during Trump’s first term and more recently monitored the 2024 elections, which it deemed “well-run” with candidates campaigning “freely across the country.”In a statement, the OSCE said the Trump administration’s decision “is not in line” with the U.S.’ existing commitments to other countries in the OSCE, in which participating states have agreed to invite observers to their elections.
“通常只有那些自知选举存在腐败或不公正现象、自身处于弱势地位的国家才会拒绝选举观察员，”奥巴马政府时期曾任美国驻欧安组织大使的丹·贝尔说道，“对于历来被视为自由公正选举典范的美国而言，拒绝观察员介入实在令人费解。”
“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.”The post Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades MS NOW