It's really notable that none of the worst case nightmare scenarios involving ICE at polling stations, arrested election workers, seized ballots, postal shenanigans, etc. came to pass. And that's due to tireless work by legal advocates for states and NGOs, not to mention independent judges who were willing to stand up to the administration's unlawful excesses.
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@mattblaze And it will all be known like the Y2K bug in history. Everyone before was panicking but now 26 years later reporters on the news are asking "Was it really that bad? See, nothing happened!".
Well, nothing happened because we were warned ahead of time and put down a LOT of unseen work to make it not happen.
Same here, without the warnings and people standing up and quietly doing their part, this would look a lot different. A lot of people already saw what could have happened and put a stop to it.
And most of the people responsible for the smoothness with which this election proceeded are relatively anonymous, toiling away at the unglamorous work that quietly keeps democracy running. We owe them all a great debt.