I have written this piece to run in tomorrow’s LA Times. It begins:

For those of us who follow elections and election law professionally, election day itself is pretty uneventful—unless of course you work for a campaign. There often are reports of “flipped votes” for one candidate or another thanks to a miscalibrated machine, problems of long lines here or there and various little hiccups, but generally nothing major.

This time around, though, I am more nervous than usual. Here are the three things I am most worried about, from least to most concerning.