Lisa Payne is relieved the 2020 general election is behind her.

The Antelope County clerk and election commissioner jokingly described the stress of prepping for the election as about an 11 on a scale of one to 10.

“I would say the stress is normal,” Payne said. “We are still finishing up.”

She has seen many elections since she started working for the county clerk’s office in May 2005.

Payne was elected as the county clerk in 2014 and took office the next year.

She noted the 3,615 voters out of the 4,570 registered in the county – 79.1 percent – who cast ballots for the Nov. 3 election were li...