Watch live: Ballot counting continues in Philly

[Raven]

6. This is tedious work, whether in a large city or a small town. It is done by volunteers who

do it for democracy, nothing else. In most places, these volunteers are older folks who have showed up for the task year after year and who have stayed until the job is done. It is quiet work because concentration is necessary and it is dull and repetitive. For some, it means watching their candidate lose, slowly, ballot by counted ballot. They do it for the democracy they love, for nothing else. They are the foot soldiers in the battle to maintain and preserve our free society.