between essentially january 2021 through essentially october 2021 and what it is that congress is trying to do. so when you look at the situation you're facing, we have to figure out how to protect election workers, we have to figure out how to protect the integrity of the vote counting process. what does federal legislation look like that does those two things in your view? >> well, we also need to protect the ability for voters to have access to their democracy, which is really -- when you look at the 19 states that have passed over 33 laws in the months that you talked about that will restrict all those things and make it more difficult for us to run elections, it's really important that we have support from the federal government that is, you know, the freedom to vote act rightly provides, as well as the john lewis voting rights act that will reinvigorate the federal protections that have stopped a roll back on democracy for so long.