I don’t understand how one becomes a poll watcher, or what they do.
Anyone help me out ?
In NY you have the local party chairman of the district you wish to observe submit your name to the elections commission. Standard fill in the name type form. Easy. That is PARTY chairman. Any party.
Duties vary. ; -)
Don’t know how it is now but many moons ago in NJ the Republicans and Democrats each had a list of the registered voters who were in the area covered by the voting machine. The list was supplied by the county clerk.This was the same list that the official voting machine workers used. They checked voters off as they came in and since most were locals they knew almost everyone. They were called challengers then not poll watchers and could challenger a voter that was not on the list or trying to vote under someone’s name illegally. It worked well.