bret? bret: what is the process for be a ten tee ballots. absentee ballots howmuch of a ry tonight. we have 286,000 absentee ballots that have already been returned as they turn the lights off here. they have been trying to play with that a little bit trying to get it right. about 107,000 absentee ballots that they have not yet gotten there must be a witness signature on these ballots in order for them to be valid but not a voter signature matching process. so, some states, two dozen of them have a voter matching process where they will check your signature on that ballot against a master list. maybe your dmv type of signature. it they do not do that in virginia. another change from 2020, polling stations now have to send their information and a lot of these central processing procedures have to start seven days before the election. so they don t count the votes until 7:00 p.m. tonight. but they get these absentee ballots and early ballots ready to go so they can hopefully