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And so I think those are the things we need to focus on this year.
One of the justices, I think it might've been Alito, I can't remember, was putting forth like a hypothetical saying, well, what happens if,
you know, a bunch of these ballots are still being delivered.
They haven't been delivered yet.
And like some news comes out the day after election day that might swing the result, meaning like, you know, the person they voted for, they no longer want to vote for, they want to switch their vote or they don't want to vote for that person.
And they could potentially call up FedEx or something that's delivering their ballot and say, don't deliver that ballot.
And FedEx will do that.
Usually they'll, they'll,
they'll say, if you don't want your package delivered, we won't deliver your package.
And so they could potentially pull their votes after election day based on something that happened after election day.
And he was putting forth this hypothetical, like what if enough of those things would change the result of the election?
Then it's not really election day anymore because it's something that happened after the election.
And so I think he was trying to show essentially that this could potentially have a really bad result.
And it isn't the intention of the Constitution to say, you know, you can make up your mind whenever you want, even after Election Day, to not vote even after you mailed in your ballot.
And so it does seem to me like enough of the conservative justices on the majority are going to vote to say you can't count ballots that arrive after Election Day.
But we'll have to see exactly where it lands, as Marcelo said.
I will tell you that my wife, who is very much a Democrat, agrees with you on wanting it to be a national holiday.
I don't know if she would agree with you on the voter ID piece, but I think...
you know, I certainly do.
And I think it is still striking to me when they've done these on the street interviews and stuff where, you know, black people will be like, of course I have an ID.