chose to resign for political optics, i might add. the woman who was appointed by the governor to be the acting secretary of state, she's a yale law graduate, african-american woman. i think they're trying to obviously skim over some of the political backlash to the arrogance in declaring yourself a victor when we have all these questions outstanding. i don't doubt her able ility to lead in some fashion, but why was she not appointed six months ago, five months ago so we could have saved ourselves this serious question? >> absolutely. i will go to you, jason. you've been covering this race early on. the big glaring spotlight on this race was about brian kemp's long history of voter