When I voted for the first time in 1988, I also seized an opportunity to volunteer at our local polling place to help count ballots. Living in a very small town that hadn’t yet purchased any kind of voting machine, we hand counted the ballots. Our Town Clerk viewed it as an outdated method, and she joked with me that, when I got older, I probably would be one of the few remaining people who…
Like organizations everywhere, my consortium is grappling with questions about which functions will remain virtual and which will return to in-person now that we are no longer required to do perform all of our operations remotely. In our case, many meetings will continue to be remote for the indefinite future, allowing greater participation from people spread across a large geographic area, with the few remaining in-person meetings almost always supporting a remote component. We are…