Lex Anteinternet: The 2021 Election Post Mortem. The Mortem and Sel...

Lex Anteinternet: The 2021 Election Post Mortem. The Mortem and Sel...: Okay, I wasn't going to comment on the 2021 off year election, but the combined impact of pundit bloviating and mutual left wing crying ...

Somehow missed in all the yapping about what the election meant was the Virginia election of Winsome Sears to Lt. Governor.

Sears is a Jamaican immigrant, a Marine Corps veteran, and black. She's also a member of the Republican Party.

That probably tells us more about undercurrents in the election than all the discussion of the Governor's race might.

The 2021 Off Year Election was . . .

yesterday.

I'm not going to bother to comment much.  Off year elections are weird by nature, and I just don't know that they really mean anything.  Indeed, if you read the headlines you can read everything from claims that Virginia is a disaster for Biden to Virginia being proof that Virginia's white demographic is clueless to Virginia being proof that Republicans who don't embrace Trump are the future of the GOP.  As it's an off year election, it probably doesn't mean too much other than it was an off year election.

Locally the ballot initiative in Natrona County was the first election to be held in the state in which voters had to present ID to vote.  I voted and presented my ID, which I thought odd at the time, but it didn't occur to me that this was new, even though I recall the change in the law, until I read it.  It'll be interesting to see if the clerks found that this presented any difficulties or what it meant, if anything, for the election.