Mr Secretary. Thank you very much for joining us today. My pleasure. Let's talk about this fight against election fraud has now turned among some of your secretaries as *** fight over election fraud detection. And I'm talking about Eric, the electronic registration Information Center. It's *** group of states that collaborate on different information sharing programs to try and catch double voting or people registered in multiple states try to stop election fraud. Your state is not in it, why not? And have you considered joining? Well, we have considered uh ways to check our voter database. Eric has been *** consideration as was the cross check program that was that existed *** few years ago. Um Cross check was very easy for us to join because it was, you know, we provided the information from our database, matched it with other states, got *** lot of results back and we took the time to go through it and find duplicates and we probably narrowed it down to *** couple 100 where there were questionable voters and out of that, there were, there were *** handful of voters that were actually prosecuted for double voting. The reason we're not in Eric is because New Hampshire is one of the few states that is exempt from the National Voter Registration Act. And we're exempt because at the time of passage of that act, we had election day voter registration. So we have taken *** different path in how our voter registration process works. We are not directly linked up with the division of motor vehicles. So we're not, you know, the motor voter statute. So for us to participate in *** it would require some fairly significant infrastructure changes in the way we share data. And, and so we really haven't uh gotten beyond, you know, that initial situation. Let me talk to you about another issue that has come up. We have talked at this conference with you before about misinformation and disinformation. And so I want to ask you about this new frontier of disinformation, artificial intelligence *** I deep fakes. Are you concerned that artificial intelligence or deep fakes could be used to mislead voters in your state? Well, yes, it's *** big concern as is, you know, misinformation and disinformation generally. Um Over the course of the last year, I had put together *** special committee on voter confidence which had some pretty high profile leaders from both parties in the state of New Hampshire. And those individuals actually went out, traveled around the state held meetings. There was always *** topic that was being discussed where there was input from local election officials or academics or pollsters just trying to get to the bottom of what we need to do to counter the misinformation that's out there and give the public confidence in the election process. And you know, the outcome of that, the takeaways are actually pretty simple. It's the election process has to be transparent. There shouldn't be secrets in the election process other than how an individual voter casts the votes on their own ballot. And we have to spend more time educating the general public, the voting public on what actually takes place in *** polling place that there are checks and balances. Actually many checks and balances that are in play when *** voter goes to cast their vote. And that should give confidence in the election process. And I think to the extent that we can be more transparent and that we can educate the voting population, we're going to be better off whether there's artificial intelligence at play or not. Let's talk about another issue of concern to some secretaries, the Brennan Center for Justice in April released survey results that found about one in five election workers. 20% said they plan to quit before next year's presidential election. That's the equivalent of 1 to 2 election officials quitting per day since the 2020 presidential election. Facing unprecedented threats, disinformation COVID, etcetera. Are you experiencing higher than normal election workers quitting in your state? I would say no. But again, New Hampshire is different in the way we run our elections. Our elections are run at the local level. The Secretary of State administers the elections. But every polling place, every community in New Hampshire elects its own moderator, clerk, supervisors of the checklist Selectmen and they're the neighbors of the voters that participate and they are the ones that actually run the polling place and they bring their neighbors in to, to help uh with additional poll workers. And so we have *** very healthy system in New Hampshire. That doesn't mean that it's not difficult for some communities to try and get people to help administer the polls. You know, there are isolated areas where that is *** problem and we're working on ways to encourage more voters to participate in that process. But in terms of voters feeling threatened, there might be *** slight uptick in individuals that feel that way. We are vigilant in New Hampshire, we communicate with our law enforcement agencies. We are aware if there are any elevated threats in the state of New Hampshire and we convey that to the polling places. But overall, our polling places in New Hampshire have *** plan in place to deal with situations that may occur. And finally, sir, what is your top priority in preparation for the next statewide election? Um New Hampshire knows how to run elections. My goal at this point is being transparent in the process and making sure that we have *** way to communicate and educate the voters when they go through as to what's actually happening in their polling place. Mr Secretary. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you.