Posted on 11/11/2022 9:09:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Cameras at the vote counting facility in a Nevada county still counting midterm election votes stopped broadcasting overnight, officials said on Nov. 10.
The livestream computer application that provides the feeds “lost connection with” the cameras at 11:24 p.m. on Wednesday, according to Bethany Drysdale, a spokesperson for Washoe County.
All staff members left for the night about an hour before the issue and none returned until 7 a.m. on Thursday morning, county officials said.
The connection was restored just before 8 a.m. on Nov. 10.
The Washoe County security administrator was said to have reviewed security cameras at the building, which run on a different system. The cameras showed that no person entered the ballot room or Registrar’s Office while the live feeds were cut off.
Security personnel are working to make that footage public.
A review of staff badges also indicated that no one entered the ballot room or office.
“In the future we will look for a solution that would prevent software disruptions or simply not offer a courtesy livestream feed,” Drysdale said in a statement. “Washoe County has been at the forefront of trying to innovate election transparency, but we have moved from an election night to a much longer election timeframe. The technology we are using to provide this livestream cannot keep up with these demands. We suggest enhancing transparency with security cameras rather than courtesy livestream cameras in future elections.”
Washoe County is among multiple counties in Nevada that have not yet completed tallying for the midterms, even though polls closed on Tuesday night.
Some 100,000 ballots, all cast by mail, remained uncounted as of Thursday afternoon, the Reno Gazette Journal reported. That included more than 50,000 ballots in Clark County.
State law requires election officials to count absentee ballots as long as they were postmarked by Election Day and received by Sunday.
In the latest tranche of votes, reported Thursday by Washoe County and other jurisdictions, Democrats Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Nevada Secretary of State hopeful Francisco Aguilar gained more votes than their rivals, former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt and Republican Jim Marchant, according to KOLO-TV.
Laxalt still leads Cortez Masto by about 9,000 votes while Aguilar has about 5,350 more votes than Marchant, according to results posted by the office of the Nevada Secretary of State.
Laxalt and the senator have each said they’re confident they will be the winner when the vote count is finally done.
That race could end up determining which party controls the Senate, which is currently split 50–50. Democrats can break ties through Vice President Kamala Harris, the president of the upper chamber.
Two other races—Arizona and Georgia, the latter heading to a runoff—remain uncalled. The race in Alaska is uncalled but Republicans have the top two vote-getters.
Surprise, surprise, surprise...
You realize the states run their elections, don’t you?
Notice they didn’t say that “No one remained in the room”.
Well if we weren’t ready to FIGHT after they tore down the statues, or burned cities, or attempted a coup, then ATTEMPTED and succeeded at a coup...then actually got us to stay indoors and also completely change our voting system...we wont fight this time either..
We’ll just b.tch and gripe and talk tough and talk about our 20 guns each
We should talk about HE USELESS THEY ARE IF THEY WILL NEVER, EVER BE USED UNDER ANY circumstance.
When the statues went down, southerners could have just gone and surrounded the statues while armed..that’s not illegal.
They did NOTHING.
I heard about nothing but the second civil war on this site for 20 years.
And when the time came... I found out I listened TWENTY YEARS OF BLUSTER.
What a shame.
Can’t wait to hear the rationalizations when Lombardo wins his election and Laxalt doesn’t.
Democrats fraud tricks. They have a bag full of them.
“But the same person who said that did nothing to fix the 2020 elections for three years prior.”
Was he going to hijack every state and strong-arm each one to change its Election Code? POTUS has no power over a state’s rights.
He did attempt to review the issues by having Kris Kobach look at the problem. States basically laughed at him and told him to go away, and he had to stop. If they don’t cooperate, a Fed can’t force them to.
““In the future we will look for a solution that would prevent software disruptions or simply not offer a courtesy livestream feed,” Drysdale said in a statement.”
“Not offering a courtesy livestream feed” would be my bet.
State law may allow extended counting, but I doubt it. The 1997 SCOTUS ruling of Foster v. Love (9-0) stated results shall be published before midnite of Election Day (with exception for <1% runoff race).
The old lost connection unplug and count deal at least they didn’t have a water line break huh Moe.
If you believe this, I have some oceanfront property in the heart of Wisconsin’s ski country for sale.
Well said. Good to see you posting again too.
I LIVE IN NEVADA & I’M NOT BUYING THIS...
POLL WORKERS CAME BACK AT 7 AM..........
AT least 1/3 of this years results didn’t do that.......
RE: I LIVE IN NEVADA & I’M NOT BUYING THIS...
Could you please be more specific? What information provided in this article are you not buying?
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