Mr Deputy Secretary. Thank you for joining us. My pleasure. Let's talk about the fight against election fraud and how it's sort of pivoted with some of your Secretary of State colleagues into the fight over fraud detection efforts. So I'm speaking about Eric, the electronic registration Information Center. This is *** group of states that share voter registration information to detect fraud, double voting people who may have registered in multiple states. Some secretaries of state are pulling their states out of this system. Uh Nevada, isn't it? Why? So Nevada was one of the original founding members of Eric. Eric is, is *** part, *** very important part, but one of the many parts of our process to uh maintain clean voter rolls and to identify fraud like you mentioned. Um So because its of its effectiveness and the support it provides to the Nevada electorate, there's no intention for Nevada to leave the process. Talk about another issue coming up here at the annual Conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State where we are now um disinformation, misinformation. And I wanted to talk about what may be the next frontier in disinformation which is artificial intelligence. *** I, deep fakes. Are you worried that *** I and deep fakes can be used to fool the voters in your state? You know? Uh, there's *** lot of things that I worry about. I will tell you that *** I is one of them. Um, it, it's growing and developing certainly. And the potential impact to the, uh, the 2024 and 2026 for that matter, election is, is not to be taken lightly. Um, it's something that my counterparts across the country and I have already begun discussions about. And in fact, I know that uh state of Washington, for example, has already passed some legislation to address how to identify uh artificial intelligence as it's used in campaign related commercials, not *** pro on Washington law or the bills that have been passed, but it's something that we're all very kind of watching closely and making sure that we discuss at the end of the day, right? As elections administrators, we're simply following the law, we want to make sure that elections are free and fair to the best of our ability. We want voters to be able to participate and, and take their role very seriously without worrying that they're being tricked into believing something or hearing something that simply isn't true. And I think you're right. *** I may be on the frontier of that in the years to come. Let's talk about another concern for election administrators. The Brennan Center for Justice in April released *** survey of results that found about one in five election workers. So that's 20% planned to quit before next year's presidential elections. That's equivalent. They said to 1 to 2 election workers per day quitting since the 2020 presidential election which saw those unprecedented threats, disinformation and COVID fallout. Are you experiencing higher than normal turnover of election workers in your state? So the short answer is yes, *** little bit longer is that I was appointed as *** deputy for elections in October of 2020. Um So unfortunately, this, this rate of turnover is all I've known looking historically though, at the turnover across our state, I can tell you that it is unusual. We're at *** point now where Nevada has 17 counties, out of our 17 counties, only seven were in their offices in the 2020 election. Uh When you look at kind of second level uh staff, you know, the deputies, the, the it managers, the other support staff that are, that are full time equivalents in the county and state government. Um It's also been *** pretty sweeping exodus of election officials across the state and I know that's not unique to Nevada either. Um So yes, we, we do have uh *** number of individuals who have left. Uh But I'll tell you that the, the men and women and it is primarily women who are about uh 7 to 8% are men in, in the election official world. Um We, we've been looking very closely at retention at training and are simply working to do what we can within the lanes that we have to make sure people are paid appropriately treated with dignity and respect, afforded the resources. They need to meet those statutory requirements at the federal and state level, but it's an ongoing challenge and it will continue to be. So finally, what is your top priority for the next statewide election? So uh Secretary Aguilar's priorities are my priorities. Uh And his number one priority when it comes to elections is the transition to *** top down voter registration system. Nevada is one of the few remaining states who has *** bottom up system. And, and what that means is that our 17 counties each maintain their own county databases on *** daily basis. They provide that information to us, to the state and we do *** number of comparisons to keep our voter rolls clean. But transitioning to *** top down system will put us all on the same database which will expedite and, and really find *** lot of efficiencies in how we conduct these steps of voter maintenance and, and other type administrative things that will really help the Nevada electorate. Certainly, especially in transparency and for the press and for the public. And they're looking for information about their own voter registrations, um major parties as well to be able to pull certain reports and, and have more insight to the electorate so that it's *** massive project statewide, as you can imagine, 17 counties plus the state, um, cyber security. You got to get it. Right. Right. There's no, there's no redoing that. So, uh, that's, that's AAA top priority because of the benefit to the electorate and to the uh, election administrators across the state. Um So that's really one of the big things we're working on, Mr Deputy Secretary. Thank you for your time. My pleasure.