Fears of aggressive poll watchers sowing chaos at polling stations or conservative groups trying to intimidate votes didn't materialize on Election Day as many election officials and voting rights experts had feared.
about mail voting, but there have been no problems of that scale reported for the general election.
“It's difficult to judge, empirically, the kind of effect these laws have on turnout because so many factors go into turnout,” said Rick Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Los Angeles law school. “You also have plenty of exaggeration on the Democratic side that any kind of change in voting laws are going to cause some major effect on the election, which has been proven not to be the case.
“We are on the back end of an election that was supposed to be the end of democracy, and it very much was not,” Snead said. In North Carolina, where several counties had reported problems with poll watchers in the May primary, the state elections board reportedin the general election, most during the early, in-person voting period and by members of campaigns rather than poll watchers. The observers were responsible for eight of the incidents.
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