What did US election officials learn about our democracy from 2024’s vote?

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When the Gwinnett county board of elections held its monthly meeting on 20 November just outside of Atlanta, the county's election director, Zach Manifold, noticed something was different.

For months leading up to the presidential election, there had been a steady stream of people who would come to speak at the board's meetings, many of them concerned about the potential for fraud or wrongdoing. But this time around, weeks after Donald Trump's victory both in Georgia and in the US presidential election, fewer than a half-dozen people signed up to speak during the public comment portion of the meeting.