Trump disinvited international election observers. Here’s what that could mean.

Jonathan Stonestreet, senior associate director of the Carter Center’s Democracy Program, discussed the Carter Center’s nonpartisan election observation work with The Christian Science Monitor.

Election experts agree that America’s election system, run by local and state officials, is solid. Mr. Stonestreet, who has studied elections for three decades – in newly formed democracies and well-established ones – says that elections in the U.S. are of “very high quality.”

“This is really about people who are our neighbors and friends and parents of the kids that our kids go to school with,” he says. “They’re the ones who are running these elections. It’s not some secret force or something. It’s just Americans.”

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