Despite fears, voting ran smoothly across the country

After two years of worries about whether the Trump administration would interfere with the midterm elections, nothing extraordinary happened on Election Day. The problems that surfaced across the country were largely sporadic and manageable, even typical. Flooding and severe weather forced a handful of polling places to close and officials to extend voting hours in some areas, while administrative mistakes caused disruptions in places like Milwaukee and Leavenworth County, Kansas. In Westchester County, New York, a programming error disrupted vote tabulation across the county, though voters continued casting ballots. Those disruptions stood in contrast to the more extraordinary threats that had dominated the run-up to the election. For months, state and local election officials had fought federal intervention, and worried it would escalate. Jessica Huseman, Votebeat.