Seeing how the vote worked on Election Day helped me understand how hard it would be to corrupt the vote.

We arrived at 5 am and opened the scanning machines. Our small NY district saw about 220 voters over the course of the day. I recognized a lot of my neighbors. About 4 people requested affidavit ballots.

It takes about 20 minutes to fill out affidavit ballots. Everyone had tried to register conventionally. A young voter with his dad thought he registered, but wasn’t in our database. A couple moved into the district and her registration transferred, his didn’t.

After the polls closed at 9 pm we printed out a tape that showed us the aggregate vote totals. On Election Day, our generally blue district went about 2 to 1 for Trump. Our county, with absentee and provisionals, went 63% for Biden.

My takeaway was that many of Trump’s voters in our area came out on Election Day, but only a quarter of eligible voters voted on Nov. 3. That seems to be what is happening as the votes are counted in a lot of areas that haven’t been called yet.

Election workers work in teams, a Republican and a Democrat. Everyone I met was there because they wanted a fair process. What’s happening now isn’t mysterious, it’s the way it’s supposed to work.