objective thank you mr thank you mr chairman for your indulgence uh thank you very much senator portman now on behalf of the chairman i'm going to recognize myself so thanks to the witnesses for being here i just want to say how important it is that we're having today's hearing let me just give you an example why yesterday i was talking i'm from the state of missouri yesterday i was talking with uh some of the constituents back at home group of about 30 people every single one of them every one of them told me that they felt they had been disenfranchised that their votes didn't matter that the election had been rigged these are normal reasonable people these are not crazy people these are reasonable people and who by the way have been involved in politics they've won they've lost they've seen...