To cut straight through the bullshit: election fraud is not actually a problem, we aren't starved for methods to keep things accurate and verifiable.
So, given all the people jumping up and down screaming about election fraud, rigging, and the need for observers and monitors and watchmen to watch the watchmen... what can we conclude?
If there isn't actually a significant amount of fraud because again, we're talking way below margin of error shit, ~10 or even ~100 votes out of 100 million being due to fraud is a hell of a thing, even in
Florida.
Acting as though we need armies of additional outside groups watching the polls makes it seem like there are people rushing in there with pants full of fake ballots all the time, which is really awkward with the electronic machines in place, let me tell ya.
On the other hand, adding arbitrary hoops to jump through when voting, like say, a whole bunch of unfamiliar people standing around "keeping an eye on things"
in addition to the people who are actually there to keep an eye on things, well, this is when we start getting to use terms like "voter intimidation" and "disenfranchisement" and those aren't fun words to deal with.
It's bad enough having one of our own assholes spouting off about it being rigged and telling people "go down and keep an eye on things" but at least he has a horse in the race.
Another country, unless say, asked to help out, doesn't have a right or whatever to be there. Letting uninvolved third parties take part and returning the favor is cool.
Various groups in Russia are arguably trying to become involved third parties, so telling them to fuck off is cool too. They've shown they have a specific interest in influencing the outcome of the race, so they can't be trusted to do anything involving it, much less trying to keep it free of fraud and corruption.
If the bodies wanting to send over observers would be so kind as to help us out by sending over the hackers and any information they've obtained first, we'd be happy to accomodate their contribution to keeping the election honest, and if that's too high of a hurdle to clear: tough?