IMO there’s no real functionality to this kind of monitoring, only “show”.
I am not saying the fraud is not present; if not rampant. And I am absolutely not putting down those who like me, wish to stand up for the integrity of the electoral process. I do NOT have an answer, other than audited hand-counted paper ballots. And the ONLY place computers should be allowed into the electoral process is by taking checksums of randomly generated ballot numbers.
I am saying that the presence of a self-appointed “poll watcher” is more or less meaningless in comparison to the clear and determined systematic and multilevel undermining of voting integrity that is one of the foundations of the Dem party operations.
There are so many ways to undermine voting it’s sick. The more effective of them, meaning, the ones that can affect the most number of votes, are invisible to the observer, which is really my main point. Meanwhile, hundreds or thousands of individual reports which cannot be documented (because recording devices are generally prohibited within polling places and indeed, their use may constitute every bit as much of a crime or misdemeanor as voter fraud) will be seen as alarmist noise.
Here’s an easy prediction: Those who carry cameras into polling places in an effort to discover fraud will be prosecuted at least 5:1 over those who commit voter fraud. If carrying a camera into a polling place is illegal, then the “evidence” so obtained is a de facto admission of guilt of that crime.
There are many examples of all of the modes of fraud; most of which do not seem capable of throwing results one way or another but SOME of which CLEARLY have thrown results one way or another. Motto: “Every vote counts; except yours”. It is the concerted effort and the self-justification of those who so engage and commit election fraud that is, to me, so alarming. But why should we be surprised with the rise of the leftist “ends justify the means” crowd and the full-on ratification of same by apparently the most powerful entities within the US Government.
We don’t see “True the Vote” invited to the White House. We see #Blacklivesmatter. Sharpton.
I again have no fabulous answers to this dilemma. As has always been known; the civil society breaks down when there is some small element determined to undermine it.