almost complete. an online ballot tracker now required under the new law says her has been received. >> 28 days, three attempts, success. what worries me is that everybody is not as tenacious as i am. they're not going to stick with it. >> that's a lot of work. diane gallagher joins us now from houston. as you mentioned early in-person voting started this week in texas. what more are you learning how that's going? >> reporter: john, that's yet another element to this new restrictive voting law in texas. activists were already out here. they say they have additional volunteers to monitor what happens. because that law added an increase in the empowerment of those partisan poll watchers as well as their access here at the polls, and their concern is especially in this extremely charged environment when it comes to elections right now that could lead to further intimidation of voters or potentially election workers or