Trump rejects international election monitors, breaking 2-decade…

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe president is declining to invite international election observers to the midterms, ending a tradition of more than twenty years.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSkip is outside a polling place in Ohio this morning.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentI'm standing outside a school gym that will be a polling place next month, and right now the only observer here is me and one very committed crossing guard.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentThe Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has sent observers to American elections for decades, and critics say turning them away discourages transparency.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo nobody is coming.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentNobody official, Hank, which is why I took the liberty of printing a lanyard. It says Observer, pending. I've already noticed the folding tables wobble.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat is a finding.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentI'll file it with my second finding, which is that the gym coffee is terrible. Back to you.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThank you, Skip. We'll put the coffee in the record.