well, there s a pattern that s clearly a place here in ohio and other swing states where voters are going to be disenfranchised on the republican closing the door on early voting. it s ironic that six years ago, then state representative, the republican secretary of state wrote the law that created 35 early days of voting here in the buckeye state. those final three days, 900,000 veterans in this state, blue star moms, gold star moms will be shut out of the final 72 hours because of this extreme measure of the secretary of state. what we d like to see is that the the law bob taft signed into law in 2006 written by a republican actually be enforced in those 35 days of early vote be opened not just for some of us but for all of us. it seems right to us. we think the courts are going to agree. we have hearings on it this week and we look forward to hearing an affirmative response. chris, the main way is