The thing that gets most deeply stuck in my craw here is how the thousands of dedicated election workers who worked tirelessly to give us an amazingly smooth election at significant personal risk are not only being denied the thanks and recognition they deserve, but vilified.
To get a sense of what an accomplishment this election was, consider this short writeup from March on pandemic voting: mattblaze.org/papers/Emergen… . Almost all of the challenges came to pass (and more) and almost none of the suggested federal support materialized.
Essentially, most counties had to run TWO elections simulaneously - one in person, and one by mail, with no way to be sure in advance of how many voters would use which. And local election workers somehow did it. Really well. We own them a huge dept.
I will admit I was EXTREMELY pessimistic about our ability to manage the logistics of the election during the pandemic, especially without extensive national-level support. I have never been so delighted to have been proven wrong.
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