I have a new set of heroes. They are embodied by the Republican Secretary of State for Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, but he is just one of many elected officials of both parties at the local and state level who made our election one of the most effective and fair in recent history.
When you think about all the noise, hype and drama leading up to the election, it is mildly incredible. There were horror stories being told of international interference, of terrible miscounting, of complete collapse of absentee ballot systems.
Yet in the end, virtually every state performed professionally, conducting the election with aplomb despite all the histrionics and shadow of the pandemic. It has been called one of the fairest and most effective elections in recent history. Sometimes I wonder if all these people around the country banded together and said, "Damn you all! You are not going to use us as your scapegoats! We are going to do the job and we are going to do it right!"
I suspect all these incredible, dedicated, honest people aren't going to get a lot of accolades. I suspect people will forget all about them within a month of Biden being elected. But I wish someone would shout out praise for their heroic effort. I would welcome a statue to the honest, elected official who oversaw the election and did it right.
Hopefully no one would find some crazy thing wrong with it and tear it down.
2 comments:
that is really beautiful. If you can send a thanks to their office, I'm sure they'd appreciate it.
You are right that they deserve many accolades. Here, here!
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