Fontes: We’ve never canceled an election in this country. So let’s kind of get that one off the table. Whether it was the Spanish flu outbreak, COVID-19, natural disasters like Hurricane Helene, the fires in Lahaina — in fact, in Hawaii, officials actually went out to find voters to get them to cast their ballots — or even the Civil War. In fact, I don’t know if you know this, but the first mail-in ballots were issued to soldiers in the field during the Civil War. We don’t cancel our elections. It is the grit — the responsible predictability of our elections — that is the golden thread running through the entire fabric of our society.