In the first place, if you want to be a poll watcher, you will need to get certified by your local pubbie crew, {it's county by county on PA, but I don't know the rules for MD}.
In PA it's about a half a day of very easy instruction, sign a few docs and get a certificate that allows us to enter and watch any precinct in our county.
In PA we are restricted by the county we live in and I don't know the restrictions of MD.
Poll watching can pretty much eliminate open fraud at the various precincts, but my biggest concern is fraudulent mail in ballots.
If the RNC doesn't have a real system in place to eliminate that form of cheating, everything we do at the polls is wasted energy.
Before we started watching this particular precinct, it voted at 100% for 8 years, and since we had a presence on site, they are down to the 60% range because the judge of elections is a crooked demonRAT, but with us there, he cannot openly cheat {and I stay until the Sheriff's Deputies arrive and pick up and sign for the sealed and tallied vote bags}.
Before we started watching this precinct, they always had a flurry of late voters...funny how that worked.
I'm in my 80s and this will be my last Presidential election {if I last that long} so some one else is going to have to eyeball this den of thieves.
BTW there are over 11,000 voting precincts in PA and we have monitored slightly less than a thousand, so the demonRATs have an open field for cheating in plain sight.
“...Before we started watching this particular precinct, it voted at 100% for 8 years, and since we had a presence on site, they are down to the 60% range...”
Wow, y’all really accomplished something big. It is too bad that the RNC is not more focused on this sort of thing.