that. >> let's get a key race alert in some of the battleground states. >> when half of your voters, 325,000 voters vote by mail it takes days to count all those ballots because you can't even begin processing the envelopes they came in until 7:00 on election morning. >> because that's the law that the republicans made. >> that is the law the republicans made and refused to change. >> and this is a key point especially in pennsylvania. >> this is the most significant modernization of our elections code in decades. >> expanded vote-by-mail legislation had been passed before the pandemic in 2019 by the republican legislature. these were republican rules. >> the refusal to count those mail votes early and be prepared really hurt the country. if you can't get the ballots counted accurately, efficiently, expeditiously, you create this space.