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And marked after Election Day are the two most highest numbers of rejected. And I know our most recent election report had really good data on that, specific numbers, but I know it's documented in there. So folks do want to go back and look, it's in each of those elections. Other question is, who made the decision on let's say there's a ballot and then it's a scribble and it's clearly not whatever the signature is, like, who's actually deciding whether that ballot counts or not? It is— the system is designed that two election workers trained in signature verification make the decision.

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