Bangladeshis monitored the country’s 13th general election, conducted simultaneously with a national referendum, like only a society scarred by past electoral violence can. On TV tickers, Facebook lives, WhatsApp groups, and friendly-if-jittery living room debates, millions tracked live turnout numbers, periodic incident reports, and (eventually) the agonizingly slow crawl of vote counting. That “vigilant watching,” as Citizen Commons put it, helped Bangladesh see an election day not reminiscent of past disputed polls.