manchin's team just to understand just how easy it is to vote in west virginia and how hard it is to vote in texas, at some point i said you know what? we'll take the west virginia standard because it is a lot easier to vote in west virginia than in texas. but as it relates to the national conversation, i mean, clearly, anything that can be done to make voting easier would be an improvement in texas. anything that can be done to have an almost no excuse absentee voting program would be good. expanding voter i.d. to provide more provisions and documents you could use to prove you are who you are. there are a number of things in the federal proposal that would really open up voting in the state of texas and be refreshing but we recognize that when it comes to voting rights in america we should only have one standard and that is the american standard. >> when you look at the -- it is hard to describe it as successful because it is so malevolent but the republican backed voter nullification campaign has been one of the