I don’t understand how one becomes a poll watcher, or what they do.
Anyone help me out ?
Well they could video tape the buses hauling voters around.
Poll watchers watch the voting and processing of ballots. In PA, you have to reside in the precinct to be one, so Philly gets away with massive voter fraud in precincts with no observers and quite a few were thrown out of polling locations. Trump hopefully will have lawyers deployed and ready.
A poll watcher can observe and keep track of who is voting, but cannot interfere or intervene in any way. I’ve been a poll watcher, and have used the poll slips to make sure the voters on my list show up to vote. If they don’t by a certain time, we call them.
Get ahold of you Republican City or County Committee and volunteer, they all probably have headquarters up and running.
What do they do?
They sit near the election clerk and listen to the names of voters being read off, and check them off their voter list. It's actually sensible that they do live in the precinct, as they may well know the names and faces of local people, and can challenge a given ballot if they think fraud is happening.
It's another level of checks and balances.