Politico: After dire warnings, Election Day voting issues are ‘isolated and sporadic’

Politico: After dire warnings, Election Day voting issues are ‘isolated and sporadic’

“As we approach the end of the voting period and polls start to close in the Eastern time zone, I'm happy to report that overall, this has been a pretty smooth Election Day for a very challenging year,” Karen Hobert Flynn, president of the good governance group Common Cause, said. “That certainly doesn't mean there were not problems or that voters didn't have barriers, because they did,” she said, calling it “nothing that seems out of the norm.”

Election administrators and regular Americans were bracing for Election Day chaos — warned to expect violence, malfunctions, long lines and disinformation. Instead, they got something else entirely: a fairly smooth election process across the country.

Though some problems have emerged — even serious ones like election equipment failures — there were not, by early Tuesday evening as a first round of states was set to close their polls, any major disruptions to the democratic process, election observers said, despite the fact that turnout appears poised to smash previous records. …

“As we approach the end of the voting period and polls start to close in the Eastern time zone, I’m happy to report that overall, this has been a pretty smooth Election Day for a very challenging year,” Karen Hobert Flynn, president of the good governance group Common Cause, said. “That certainly doesn’t mean there were not problems or that voters didn’t have barriers, because they did,” she said, calling it “nothing that seems out of the norm.”