Serati
You were asked how vote counters were appointed. You said that they were appointed locally, usually by the DNC in large population areas. I think vote counters work for the county board of election and are civil servant jobs, not appointed jobs.
I can't speak to every single place as the process is controlled locally, without national standards, and may or may not be directly controlled by the state. In most circumstances, poll workers are temporary workers, sometimes mostly volunteers. So, here's one place - Philadelphia - that I picked mostly because it's synomous with election irregularities, if not down right cheating. Here's what's required:
What are the requirements to be a poll worker?
To become a poll worker, you must:
Be a citizen of the United States.
Be a registered voter in Philadelphia. (Anyone who is not currently registered can register online at www.philadelphiavotes.com by clicking “Register to Vote.”)
Be 18 years of age (unless you are 17 years old and actively enrolled in high school or secondary school).
Not be a PA elected public official or a candidate.
If a person has been convicted of election related crimes under the election code, then they are unable to serve as a poll worker for 4 years (or for whatever length of time imposed by the courts).
https://www.phila.gov/2020-09-02-become-a-poll-worker/Got to love that if you've been previously
convicted of election related crimes, Philly takes the the
extreme precaution of telling you that you're not eligible to be a poll worker for a whole four years (well unless the court set a lesser or greater time)!
You absolutely have to be registered in Philly, and in one of the two congressional districts in Philly Republicans are outnumbered by more than 10 to 1. There were some 700 plus polling locations in Philly, and even more drop boxes for votes (that were themselves not monitored), over 8500 poll workers hired. In PA you work in the precinct in which you are registered to vote. It came out during the Romney-Obama election that 1 in 4 precincts in Philly contained less than 20 registered Republicans. Those people would generally be the entire eligible pool of Republicans that were even eligible to be a poll worker in that precinct, and they'd still have to have applied and been selected.
Now poll and vote watchers are appointed by the respective parties. I believe those are normally volunteer positions.
Watchers are, which is exactly why excluding them in districts where there isn't a balance of parties means effectively that excluding them turns it into a one party counting system.
However, as was pointed out, unless they can show that their poll watchers were told/forced to leave, there may not be anything to this. And again there might be.
It was pretty clear that the poll watchers reported they were told to leave because counting was done for the night.