A Wisconsin Victory Feels Like We Are Mourning

Madison, Wisconsin - "Joe may win. But it feels like we lost something important last night," said Andrew Yang on social media this morning.

Joe may win. But it feels like we lost something important last night.

— Andrew Yang🧢🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) November 4, 2020

Yang's sentiment seems widely held here as most of the people I have spoken to seem in mourning despite Biden's apparent victory here, and in the national Electoral College.

There is a major national Party that is racist and hostile to the idea of democracy.

But the Democratic Party's strategic project seems to be sabotaging progressive reformers in service to big money, virtue signaling and identity politics.

This is not healthy for a democratic republic. It's fatal.

"The richest and most powerful country on earth — whether due to ineptitude, choice or some combination of both — has no ability to perform the simple task of counting votes in a minimally efficient or confidence-inspiring manner. As a result, the credibility of the voting process is severely impaired, and any residual authority the U.S. claims to 'spread' democracy to lucky recipients of its benevolence around the world is close to obliterated," writes Glenn Greenwald this morning.

Election Day Is Sedate at Madison, Wisconsin Polls Staffed by Young People

Meadowridge Library in Madison Wisconsin
Election Day 2020 - No voters in sight

Updated - Madison, Wisconsin - A beautiful day and young, new faces greeted the veritable trickle of voters observed today.

On the southwest side, two polling places saw barely a trickle of voters at approximately 10 a.m., continuing a quiet morning across the city during this Pandemic election.

Polling workers skewed very young in a radical departure from a typically high number of folks of retired age. 

Increased number of turnout checks reported to the City Clerk includes scheduled counts at 9, 11 in the morning and  1, 4, 6 and 7 in the p,m., a poll worker said. 

The high turnout-reporting is a consequence of the mammoth number of early voting, and the resultant feeding of ballots into tabulators all day.

Some 20 young workers staffing the polls this morning vastly outnumbered observed voters present over a half-hour period at two separate southwest Madison polling sites.

Young poll workers saved this Election today. 

The City Clerk and other election officials have been sending out thank yous for weeks.

One observer and a poll worker say they expect results from the City to come no later than usual on presidential general election day.

Our polling places are hopping today!

With most polling places reporting their 2pm numbers, we've processed 47.71% of absentee ballots.#MadisonVotes2020 #vote #elections2020

— Madison WI Clerk (@MadisonWIClerk) November 3, 2020