{"id":1738686,"date":"2022-11-14T19:18:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T00:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738686"},"modified":"2022-11-14T19:18:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T00:18:16","slug":"nevada-county-confirms-livestream-video-of-vote-count-areas-went-dark-for-8-hours-responds-to-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevada-county-confirms-livestream-video-of-vote-count-areas-went-dark-for-8-hours-responds-to-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada County Confirms Livestream Video Of Vote-Count Areas Went Dark For 8 Hours, Responds To Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnevada-county-confirms-livestream-video-of-vote-count-areas-went-dark-for-8-hours-responds-to-criticism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738686&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>County officials in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/nevada\">Nevada<\/a> over the weekend confirmed that cameras live-streaming vote-counting areas on Wednesday night and Thursday morning went\u00a0dark for a total of eight hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that our election livestream cameras went dark overnight. We investigated what happened and how to prevent it happening again,\u201d Washoe County\u2019s Twitter account posted Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the tweet went viral, racking up thousands of reactions, which included questions concerning election integrity.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We know that our election livestream cameras went dark overnight. We investigated what happened and how to prevent it happening again. Learn more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LT8OJkxX3L\">https:\/\/t.co\/LT8OJkxX3L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Washoe County (@washoecounty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washoecounty\/status\/1590781388902785024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe livestream computer <span data-contrast=\"auto\">application <span data-contrast=\"auto\">lost connection with the courtesy cameras at 11:24 p.m. the evening of November 9,\u201d the county <a href=\"https:\/\/washoelife.washoecounty.gov\/washoe-county\/registrar-of-voters-livestream-cameras\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> on its website. \u201cAll staff had left for the night about 60 minutes earlier and did not arrive back at the office until 7 a.m. Connection was restored at 7:53 a.m. the morning of November 10.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe courtesy cameras are connected to a computer application designed for livestream events,\u201d the county site continued. \u201cThey intermittently lose connection with the application. When this has happened before, such as on Election Night when one camera went dark, staff was able to see the disruption and restore it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Security footage was also reviewed, the county said. \u201cAccording to the Washoe County security administrator, that footage shows the parking garage,\u00a0the hallway between the garage, and the entry doors to the Registrar\u2019s Office.\u00a0He has affirmed that no one entered the ballot room or Registrar\u2019s Office during the time that the courtesy livestream was down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notably, a U.S. Senate race in Nevada was called for the Democrats on Saturday, which meant the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-republicans-fail-to-take-back-the-senate-from-democrats-projection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republicans had failed to gain enough seats to take back the majority<\/a>,\u00a0since ties are broken by the vice president.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP was hopeful former state Attorney General Adam Laxalt, a Republican, would flip the blue seat by ousting incumbent Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto. Despite Laxalt leading in prior polling, the Republican failed to best the Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP thought the race was locked up. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC), during a National Republican Senatorial Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/11\/11\/republicans-redirect-hopes-for-senate-majority-on-georgia-runoff-00066517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">phone call<\/a>\u00a0Friday, went as far as to say, \u201cThere is no mathematical way Laxalt loses. If he does, then it\u2019s a lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lindsey Graham suggested on NRSC call yesterday that fraud in NV would be the only way GOP loses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no mathematical way Laxalt loses,\u201d Graham said. \u201cIf he does, then it\u2019s a lie.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g4u15f6n7l\">https:\/\/t.co\/g4u15f6n7l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Natalie Allison (@natalie_allison) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/natalie_allison\/status\/1591121110959022080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Questions over election integrity from both sides of the political aisle have dominated news cycles in recent years. One main issue is certainly the influx of vote-by-mail initiatives that lead to vote-counts lingering for days or even weeks after Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Politico in October <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/politico-nightly\/2022\/10\/28\/how-election-day-became-election-month-00064088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acknowledged<\/a> the shift, declaring, \u201cElection Day is dead. Long live election month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-republicans-fail-to-take-back-the-senate-from-democrats-projection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republicans Fail To Take Back The Senate From Democrats<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County officials in Nevada over the weekend confirmed that cameras live-streaming vote-counting areas on Wednesday night and Thursday morning went\u00a0dark for a total of eight hours. \u201cWe know that our election livestream cameras went dark overnight. We investigated what happened and how to prevent it happening again,\u201d Washoe County\u2019s Twitter account posted Thursday afternoon. Unsurprisingly, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1738689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1738689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}