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Let me contrast the repugnant arson of a ballot drop-box in Vancouver, Washington, early Monday with what I saw that afternoon at the Spokane County Elections Office. Like me, lots of people were there to drop off ballots, and many walked them right up to the office door. I’d just come from lunch with a friend who was about to text her son a reminder to update his registration in person because he’d moved.

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Time to move on. It’s been nine years of meeting a weekly Spokesman-Review deadline, anchoring my calendar and shaping my schedule. Thinking, researching, and pulling together 800 or so words I’m willing to take flak for, every seven days. It is enough.