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 Separately, let’s also credit electoral campaigners running up the score in early voting so that it was an insurmountable blue wave, prominently including #NoKings Early Vote a couple weekends ago, which measurably boosted early voting where there were events, in a huge way in places.
A weekend protest that actually changed things!
@mattblaze How can we find out about how this works? How was ICE stopped? What did the legal advocates do exactly?
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.
@mattblaze They gave me and my spouse lollipops. They didn't have to but it was a nice treat
@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.
@mattblaze but mostly due to the de-centralized nature of U.S. elections. Between absentee ballots, 2+ weeks of early voting in ~9000 early polling locations, and day-of voting in 100K locations, it's a logistical nightmare to try and organize something on a scale big enough to effect the outcome.