What do you see as the problem with doing that?

Sure.

So, you know, for for over a year at this point, the government has been trying to force states to turn over these voter lists and asserting that they have the authority to do that and that they have good reason to try and check these voter lists for either noncitizens or other ineligible voters.

At this point, they've actually sued 30 states plus the District of Columbia.

attempting to get this data and they have thus far been unsuccessful.

Many of those court decisions have been in the district court and those cases are making their way through the appellate courts now.

And one of the fundamental issues in those cases is that state law really protects the privacy of the voters and the integrity of this information and making sure that it's only shared in the appropriate ways for the appropriate reasons so that voters know that their data, when they register to vote, is going to be protected and there are state laws that ensure that.

How do these cuts translate to increased risks in this way?

Talk about state laws that criminal laws that could conceivably apply there if the federal government were to do in this election what it has already done once in Fulton County, Georgia, with respect to the 2020 election.

Exactly.

So Fulton County serves as the main example, but I think it's also important for folks to remember this was a topic of discussion from the president and the administration in 2020 when he was in office.

And he has since said that he regrets the fact that he didn't seize ballots in an ongoing election in 2020.

And we know that there were executive orders that were drafted to that effect at the time.

And so again, a very legitimate thing for people to be worried about happening, especially in the wake of Fulton County.

And so here, I think it is critical to understand that every state has very specific laws about the chain of custody of ballots, of voting machines, of other election materials, and also about possession of those materials.

And the federal government is certainly going to argue, so tell us how it would argue it most likely, you can't do that.

Mm.

That helped give rise to- to what would come.

But after all of the hardships of the Great Depression and the war, Americans were really embracing what they called the modern way of life, which largely meant sort of exerting yourself physically as little as possible, particularly in the middle and upper classes.

You know, push button appliances became popular.

Ranch houses eliminated stairs.

Driving replaced walking in a lot of cases.

And TV, you know, exploded.

I'm getting the feeling of coming backstage when I pump up, so I'm coming day and night.