... there's a lot of, like, just, just unanswered questions or no one really knows what to do when one of these discrepancies arise.

No, it's, it's very opaque and frustrating to the average, um, voter.

Um, certainly if, if you go to vote and your name's [laughs] your name's not on the list or you've been marked as inactive.

Um, and also for, for poll, uh, poll watchers as well.

Um, I know when I ran for Congress two years ago, I was so grateful, uh, there were an army of folks from Mobile County that went throughout District 2, um, to, to poll watch.

But, um, making sure that those folks are empowered, um, with the knowledge that they need to, uh, spot an irregularity, to know how to report that.

Um, so I think across the board, offering more training, um, you know, at, at local...

Uh, what'd you, what's your takeaway from, uh, that event?

What are you hearing, uh, as you make your way around Alabama?

Well, I think, you know, consistency and transparency is key.

I think this audit, um, procedure that, that we will have after, uh, the elections November, in November is, is gonna be key to making sure that Alabamians actually trust their elections a- and want to participate, whether it's, you know, just voting or, um, being an Election Day volunteer or, or running for office.

I think that's incredibly important that there's, um, there's consistency there.

Um, and I think, again, with respect to the Office of Secretary of State, there's a lot more that we can do, um, when it comes to transparency.

I'm grateful to President Trump and, and all the emphasis on efficiency, transparency, making government work for the people of this country.

And, and I'm a secretary of state who wants to make government work for the people of this state.

Why is this so important?

And in the middle of all of that, I think one of the primary things, no pun intended, but is basically we'd like to know that the elections that we vote in are, you know, they're up to speed, that everything's on the up and up, right?

Oh, exactly.

Exactly.

And, you know, I feel like a lot of times during the primary, I mean, first of all, just emphasizing to people how I think some people think secretary of state, they think, oh, do you just take minutes of the state legislature or something? You know, I mean, you hear the word secretary and you think, oh, that's an important role, but it's a scrivener's role and people...

you know, a lot of folks part of campaigning with educating people about, you know, not just how crucial election integrity is, um, truly vital to ensuring the future of our country.

Um, you know, even though we have people we admire step up to run and we have people that get out to vote, if we don't have secure elections, if the process isn't secure, um, then it's kind of all for nothing.

Um, but also the fact that, um, you know, we, we haven't achieved, uh, elect, you know, perfect election integrity, um, And and far from it.

What specific approaches do you envision that you would implement if you become Secretary of State?

So flesh out just for our viewers who may not understand the business services side and how your expertise in that type of law will work hand in glove.

Yes.

Yes.

So every LLC, limited liability company, partnership, corporation that is incorporated in Alabama or is incorporated in another state but qualifies to do business in Alabama has to file with the Office of Secretary of State.

And so it's been relatively recently, you know, in the really in the past decade that that has been happening.

become online services.

So kind of late, late in the game.

Can you just talk through some of that and what your thought process is for that?

Can you talk a little bit about that process of higher education, going to school,

deciding what you wanted to do, what that looked like for you? So my dad was president of ACA back in 1994.

My mom was Alabama Cattlewomen's president the next year.

And it was during that time, this building was being built, the Cattlemen's Building was being built.

The leadership of the Cattlemen's Association, I think, really came up with this idea of the cattle tags and of providing scholarships for because it is so hard to get young people to take careers in agriculture, to make it possible for young people to leave the farm, to get the education that they need to come back to the farm or to enter into some other agriculture-related professions.

But what I think is also really important and what was meaningful to me with the Tag for Greatness scholarship, I knew I really wanted to go to law school.

I wanted to advocate for private property rights and I wanted to help farmers and ranchers like my parents.

So can you tell us a little bit