As I turned on the BBC at 10pm to watch coverage of the UK general election (news outlets aren’t able to report on the election until the polls close at 10pm), I paused and appreciated the BBC live streams showing ballot counting sites around the country.
In school halls and auditoriums thousands of people were at work. Some were delivering large, plastic, zip-tied-shut boxes, others were running those boxes to tellers, and the tellers themselves were sitting in long rows counting votes.
I was grateful to watch the wheels of a peace democracy turn live in front of me.