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September 10, 2026

Every Day Can’t Suck
Bringing Joy Back to Elections

By Amelia McClain, Matthew Tlachac and Noah Praetz 

Election administration is hard. Plenty of days are just a grind.

The hours are long, and they get longer as the calendar closes in. The work doesn’t stop when the polls do: stacking deadlines, staffing shortages, a phone that won’t stop ringing, paperwork that eats a week. And the job now carries pressures that nobody signed up for, including some that make you think about your own safety.

And yet, having worked our share of elections, there are moments we never got tired of.

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