Among the 15 items on a checklist distributed to the Nevada GOP’s volunteer poll watcher teams during in-person early voting hours through election day and obtained by the Nevada Independent are requirements that are mostly reasonable enough, by both normal and deeply paranoid Republican standards, such as “Polling place closed on time,” “Watchers were given ample access to observe procedures,” “No voters that entered line after designated closing time were allowed to vote,” “Drop boxes were collected by bipartisan teams with visible party identifiers,” and so on.
There’s one however that definitely goes the extra mile into the Krakenverse – “No voting machines had visible internet connectivity” – and raising some alarms that, for obvious reasons, since none of these fuckers are being trained on what that’s supposed to mean, let alone a basic intro to voting machine hardware ports, MAGA watchdogs could lose their shit over something innocuous.
“It leaves open to interpretation of, like, what is considered visible internet connectivity?” said Nevada ACLU attorney Sadmira Ramic. “Some people are convinced that if there’s any type of flash drive around, if there’s any kind of wiring around, then it’s automatically connected to the internet.”