>> well, you're getting us started, ed. to the extent that you continue to sound the alarm and others on the ground, we do have good government groups going all over this state. i think it will backfire, the same way it back fired on them last year when they tried to thwart access to the ballot box. it will backfire again. but we don't have the glitz and glamour of a presidential election and that is why what you are doing is so important. every election matters. >> it's the worst you've ever seen. >> absolutely. it goes back. remember the long lines in ohio in 2004? and juxtapose those long lines to what happened in florida in 2012. that is exactly what they're doing, trying to discourage people from exercising their fundamental rights to vote. >> and i want to make sure i've got this right. this would diminish the power of the secretary of state. >> yes, the absentee ballot applications being mailed out that, particular bill states that only if the general assembly authorizes it through an appropriation. so if the general assembly does not give money to the secretary of state to mail out those absentee ballot applications,