As most of you recognize, Republican Adam Laxalt is at the moment main Democrat Catherine Cortez 49% to 48% in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race.
Laxalt earlier on Thursday introduced that his opponent had no path to victory.
As of proper now, solely 90% of the vote is in and counties all throughout the state are nonetheless counting ballots.
With the intention to have some sort of “transparency” many of those counties have been live-streaming poll counting.
A type of counties counting ballots whereas stay streaming is Washoe County.
Final night time, nonetheless, “transparency” went out the window as a result of at 11:24 PM Washoe County’s stay stream went offline which led to viewers looking at black screens.
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Appears like Washoe County’s stay stream, which has been displaying 4 angles of the poll counting rooms, did go darkish final night time at 11:24p and stayed darkish till simply earlier than 8a this morning.
We have reached out to Washoe County to ask what occurred. https://t.co/MsWJi7lKzE pic.twitter.com/i9fdMAnTyZ
— Ben Margiott (@BenMargiott) November 10, 2022
In an official press launch, Washoe County claimed that every one workers left for the night time 60 minutes earlier than the stay stream went offline.
In that press launch officers from Washoe County said “The courtesy cameras are related to a pc utility designed for livestream occasions. They intermittently lose reference to the applying.”
We all know that our election livestream cameras went darkish in a single day. We investigated what occurred and how one can forestall it taking place once more. Be taught extra right here: https://t.co/LT8OJkxX3L
— Washoe County (@washoecounty) November 10, 2022
In conclusion, Washoe County, bizarrely said, “Sooner or later, we are going to search for an answer that will forestall software program disruptions or just not supply a courtesy livestream feed.”
So principally subsequent time they may simply eliminate the cameras altogether so voters will likely be in the dead of night utterly.
UPDATE: It seems the live-stream is again on-line on Friday morning.
