rolls regularly as a matter of course. but the election board's second responsibility is to make sure the elections work right. for the people who are on the rolls, starting with preventing eligible voters who ought to be able to vote without a problem from being blocked from doing that. the work of an elections board has real material consequences to all of us. if they do their job well, if they're able to devote sufficient time and resources to the process of organizing an election, then the lines aren't too long and there are not frustrations about getting polling places open, machines working, that enough people are not dissuaded from voting by the difficulty of trying to vote, itself, that the election outcome is affected by the difficulty of voting. then maybe the smooth running of the process of voting doesn't make a huge difference in the outcome in states when the result is a blowout, but in 2008, as you heard the tea party guy say, the election in north carolina was decided by a teeny, teeny, teeny, tiny margin of 14,000 votes. with the margin that slim, and remember, the polls right now in north carolina are straight up, a straight-up tie, with a margin that tight, anything that makes it harder to vote in north carolina could change the outcome in north carolina and therefore change the outcome of