so many layers and steps that can be taken. all in all, the seat could be empty for a number of months. by the time you are done with all these layers of who will be doing the investigation, whether it s the court, house of representatives, all of this, bottom line is, the voters are going to throw up their hands and say why don t we just do a new election. that s ultimately what might happen in this case. eric: michael, how do you get there? you have a democratic house. could they certify and say we think the democrat won? i mean, i think part of the problem is you ve got republicans and as i understand the north carolina electoral commission now, there s room for republican seats and democratic seats. the republicans don t want to nominate people to sit on that. that s why the democratic governor is not forming that committee. eric: three democrats and two republicans. that needs to be done. i mean, everybody, and i think we would say this, everybody whether you re democrat or re