And other people just like the convenience of being able to be at home with the where their vote goes, I guess, how would limiting people to a certain amount of, I guess, excused absences from the ballot box impact their ability to vote by mail?

Well, life isn't neatly divided into one reason that you might not be able to make it to the ballot box or another.

I mean, these circumstances don't exist in a vacuum.

They're often overlapping.

You might be somebody with disabilities and also somebody who lives in rural South Dakota without reliable access to transportation to your polling place on Election Day, you know, would that be accounted for in these random like eight reasons in state law and requiring voters to attest to one of these reasons in order to be eligible for an absentee ballot kind of by nature just either requires them to maybe potentially perjure themselves if they don't exactly and specifically fit into one of those reasons or disenfranchises them from being able to access the kind of ballot that they need in order to participate in our elections.

What kind of issues do folks face most frequently? You know, ultimately we believe that all voters should be able to cast their ballot in the way that's most convenient for them, whether that's voting early in person at a polling location on election day or by mail.

But mail-in voting is especially important for people with disabilities, seniors, voters without reliable access to transportation, A lot of South Dakotans, especially these days, are juggling multiple jobs or have irregular schedules.

guess, is there anything to you that maybe sets up a red flag? Is there anything to you that sets up that these ballots could be