Why This Year’s Promised Election Day Protests Fizzled

The Washington Post reports:

After two years of promises from Trump and his supporters that they would flood polls and counting stations with partisan watchers to spot alleged fraud, after unprecedented threats lodged against election workers, after calls to ditch machines in favor of hand counting and after postings on internet chat groups called for violent action to stop supposed cheating, a peaceful Election Day drew high turnout and only scattered reports of problems.

Election officials said they believed the relative normalcy resulted from a combination of concerted effort on the part of well-prepared poll workers and voters, as well as the fact that some of Trump’s loudest supporters were less potent than they had claimed. Election workers helped counter suspicion in the community by throwing open their doors before Election Day to explain how the ballot counting system operates, using social media to educate voters and holding public information sessions.

Read the full article. Elections officials nationwide were also very active on social media, responding directly to false claims and providing real-time updates on issues as they arose.

“Protest, protest, protest,” Donald Trump wrote on social media Tuesday. Unlike 2020, when similar cries from the then-president drew thousands of supporters into the streets — including the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — this time, no one showed up. https://t.co/OzCTWk8Lun

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 10, 2022