provisions. the question is whether states have the right to -- to -- it's essentially an issue of previous clearance basically, whether there's an assumption that states in the deep south can't be trusted to make the laws before you sue against them. and in those 19 states, your argument basically implies that the preclearance requirement should be extended to all 50 states, right? >> i want to bring in stephanie for one second. you actually helped run a campaign in 2012. if this decision had been made let's say in 2010, do you think that could have changed the election? >> i don't know if it would have changed the election because, you know, as jonathan has written, we put a lot of effort into monitoring what was happening at the polls and tone suring everybody had access to vote. and that included knocking down some of these restrictive voter i.d. laws and things states were