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The dnc said we liked to see more people involved, find way to work out some absentee option for people who can't make caucus night. they worked on trying to get something done. they put this forward. now the dnc said, not good enough. they don't have a whole lot of time left to figure this out. and also for the candidates to figure out how this is going to work. your thoughts? >> that's right, molly. there are three significant components about this. first you have a major national party acknowledging security concerns for an upcoming election, which is what the driving issue here is. two, on...

Caucus. basically the party is really concerned about security and the potential of a hack during a teleconference system especially after what we saw in 2016. after the incident in 2016 when the dnc was hacked, it recommended and put into motion changes so that states that caucuses have to offer voters an absentee option for those who can't show up in person. the caucus in iowa happens on a monday night in february. it's cold. there are snowstorms. people aren't safe on the roads. not everyone has the luxury of spending three plus hours in a church or high school gym. they had child care issu...

Source with direct knowledge meeting in san francisco last week. basically the options that the idp has now is they can propose alternative solutions for nonpresent voting, absentee voting options. they can either maybe do voting by mail or early absentee ballot voting. all they need to do is make sure that it stay as way from what a new hampshire primary would like as a caucus state. and so as the dnc and the idp work together, the dnc is open to extending that september 13th deadline that the idp originally had to submit a plan. so they're willing to work together. and one alternative soluti...