WaPo:

Sandoval County has overhauled the hand-counting of absentee ballots, reduced its number of ballot drop boxes and curtailed their hours of access. Not only have Brady-Romero and Dominguez, her chief deputy, spent many hours answering questions from a local activist group that has promoted debunked allegations of widespread voter fraud; they have hired two of the group’s leaders to work the polls on Tuesday.

“When I’m here in this office, I’m not a Democrat and I’m not a Republican. I’m just a public servant,” Brady-Romero said. “And I include the public to come and learn, especially with all the misinformation that’s out there.”

The détente in Sandoval mirrors a statewide trend at odds with developments elsewhere in the country. As machetes are brandished at Florida polling sites and ballot drop boxes in the Pacific Northwest go up in flames, in New Mexico — once a hotbed of right-wing antagonism toward the local and state officials who oversee voting — something remarkable is happening: a calm election.