Mr Secretary, thank you very much for joining us. My pleasure. Let's talk about in the fight over election fraud. This fight now about election fraud detection. And I'm talking about Eric, the electronic Registration Information Center. It's this group of states that share data to hopefully catch people who have double voted or uh registered in multiple states to vote. Some of your colleagues are pulling their states out of collaborating with Eric. Your state has stayed in. Why? Yeah, we're *** proud member of Eric and specifically Rhode Island found one of those double voters in the last election cycle, voted in Florida and Rhode Island and is being prosecuted now, you know, I don't think there's any better system to create solid voter rolls. I don't understand the reasoning for withdrawing from Eric. This is, this is one of the most secure and holistic ways to make sure our voter rolls are secure. Let's talk about an issue that comes up here uh at, at NASA which is disinformation. Um And by NASA, I mean, the annual Conference of National Association of Secretaries of the State where we are now this year, there's *** twist though, I've noticed this new frontier of disinformation. Artificial intelligence. *** I deep fakes. Are you worried that artificial intelligence, deep fakes can be used to fool voters in your state? Yes. Yes. I, I mean, I think secretaries of state, but all of government should be aware of the technology that continues to change, especially in the deep figs because as we know, folks can be misled and then that leads to further communication in their circles and then you start to build *** narrative. And so it's important that government especially get out in front and that we talk about this with the public and we talk about this within government and we make sure that people are aware that what they're seeing may not be what they think they're seeing. And we have to do *** better job on the education side of things. And that's something our office has started to do both in the school level and across the state, talking about everything from deep fake and *** I, but also the misinformation in regard to voter fraud or potential voter fraud, it sort of puts an incumbent upon the voter, maybe to do *** little bit more leg work. It does, it does. I mean, there's *** responsibility on the voters' behalf always, but it's our responsibility to be out there as much as we can and share the information that we have and make sure that we're *** good resource for folks to go to trusted info. 2024. Yes, that's the hashtag that this organization uses *** lot. Let's talk about another issue that has come up here amongst the secretaries. The Brennan Center for Justice in April released results of *** survey that found about one in five election workers. 20% are thinking about quitting before next year's presidential. They said that's equivalent to 1 to 2 election officials quitting every day since the 2020 presidential election. Are you seeing higher than normal turnover of your election workers? We are and we don't know exactly what's causing that. And we've engaged in an effort to recruit election workers, but you can't replace that institutional knowledge that exists. We think most of our, what we see in departure is related to retirement, not necessarily the effects of threats or the environment that exists around elections, but we know that some of it is due to that and we know that, you know the headlines in Rhode Island are one thing, but when you see national headlines and you see that election workers are being intimidated, threatened their families being threatened. You know, that can cause folks to say, ok, I've had enough and so we're making sure we put an effort in in Rhode Island to recruit the next generation of poll workers and to make sure they know that this is one of the key elements of maintaining our democracy. Finally, what is the number one step you're taking to prepare for the next statewide election. So we're fortunate and unfortunate at the same time to have *** special election, congressional election, our first one since 1968. And, and there are 35 folks who have declared for this seat. So we're going to run an election in Rhode Island. We're small. We only have two congressional districts. So we're going to run an election half the state. So we have an opportunity to test what we've been practicing. Which, yeah, which is, which is making sure that all of our systems, both physical and cyber are in good shape. We're in the process right now of engaging in that effort and this is part of legislation that I actually co sponsored in the Rhode Island General Assembly to make sure we did *** cyber security assessment prior to elections and we're in the process of doing that now and we'll get to learn *** lot from this special election going forward to the presidential. Mr Secretary. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you.