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The Yonder Uncovers the Path Ahead [1]

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Date: 2024-11-20

Julie Ardery and I watched voters come and go for twelve hours at Precinct 101N, otherwise known as the La Grange (Texas) City Hall. We worked the election, checking in people on the little electronic poll books, giving them ballots, and, the most fun, handing out red, white and blue “I Voted” stickers.

Throughout the day we privately speculated about what we were seeing. For a few hours it seemed the vast majority of voters were women. Surely, we kept thinking, there will be a crush of voters any minute. Every new voter brought a new speculation.

All of our guesses were wrong. Women voted for Trump. The crush of voters never came. It turned out that fewer people voted at 101N than four years ago.

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