There will be three sets of numbers.
The first will be turnout numbers, which are already being released.
The second, coming Monday 4/13, will be vote totals per candidate. We'll find out who won.
The third will take longer, & remain unclear: the number infected. The deaths.
The first will be turnout numbers, which are already being released.
The second, coming Monday 4/13, will be vote totals per candidate. We'll find out who won.
The third will take longer, & remain unclear: the number infected. The deaths.
Two weeks from now, as the pandemic rages on, some number of people who voted today will find that their fever is not subsiding. That they can't take deep breaths. That their bodies ache, relentlessly. They might never find out where they were exposed.
They might never know the names of the specific legislators who chose, in the face of scientific consensus that public gatherings increase the risk of coronavirus transmission, to hold an in-person statewide election today. Names like Robin Vos and Scott Fitzgerald.
The deaths of those who caught coronavirus today might be indistinguishable from others in the onrushing tide of tragedy. But that won't make them any less real. And it won't make the decisions of those who caused them any less unforgivable.
Those who arrogated protective equipment to themselves as it runs out in hospitals, who told people "you are incredibly safe to go out" and shut off avenues for casting safe votes by mail—you are seen. Your measure has been taken. You will fail.
