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‘Work to do’

Many voters on both sides worry about what’s to come.

“I feel sad,” said Greg Todey, a real estate investor from Milton who voted for Trump and worries that fraud might have tipped the election. “There’s no way to know. I don’t want to go around accusing people of wrongdoing.”

At the same time, Todey worries that businesses under financial stress will simply give up when Biden takes office.

“If you’re running a business and hanging on by a thread and trying to keep folks employed and people are saying they’re going to raise your taxes, it’s very troubling.”

Stephanie Stuckey, a former Democratic state legislator, is concerned about how enemies forged by the campaign might reconcile.

“Someone just ripped up my Black Lives Matter sign and stole my Biden sign in my front yard,” Stuckey wrote Saturday on Twitter. “Sigh. We still have a lot of work to do in this country to restore civility and respect.”

Deirdre Bembry started that work shortly after the race was called.

Bembry, of Newnan, gathered her sister and their children, ages 3 to 13, for a trip to downtown Atlanta to visit a grand mural of John Lewis on Auburn Avenue. The late congressman and civil rights leader, who died in July, was jailed, beaten and belittled in his decades of fighting for voting rights.

“I just felt it deeply important to show my kids what was behind everything that is happening with our election and why this is probably the most important election of our lives,” Bembry said. “And for their future.”