workers being threatened and harassed. threats are directed at them, at their families, at their children. they're being harassed with frivolous subpoenas. they are seeing legislatures criminalize their professional conduct. and it's very important, these are both republicans and democrats, people who were in swing states and in states like texas and florida and north carolina that voted for donald trump in 2020. and what i hear consistently from election officials, hundreds of them all over the country, is that the stress is getting to them. they are really thinking whether this is all worth it. these are professionals. we're probably at the most professional point of election administration in american history, and we're not only suffering from the prospect of losing a generation of election professionalism, the question is what will replace it. will it be replaced with partisan hackery? >> the texas aspect of this, and david, you just made this point,