Do your voting places not have reps from both (or all) parties present to oversee what’s happening? This is standard practice in other democratic countries. They would be on the lookout for voter fraud and ballot tampering.
Heavily Rat infested precincts frequently won’t let GOP observers in the door.
A polling location should have election workers from both parties, but in counties that are heavily populated by one party, sometimes the other party doesn’t have enough volunteers to work the election, so they have might have precincts with no precinct chairman (whose primary job is to run the election at the precinct level) and then they have to pick which precincts to send their meager supply of volunteers to.