the decisions by at least two counties that we know of, montgomery county, which is the third largest county in pennsylvania, and north hampton county where officials gave notice of defective mail ballots. they didn't have a signature. they had some problem with them, and gave voters a chance to come in and fix the problem and cast a provisional ballot. the republicans say you can't do that. state law doesn't allow it. the democrats say, well, state law doesn't explicitly provide for it, but it doesn't prohibit it either. so just a moment ago the appellate court in pennsylvania, this is what's known as the commonwealth court in pennsylvania issued an order saying that all provisional ballots that were cast on election day where the elector's absentee ballot or mail-in ballot was received have to be segregated until basically we can decide whether the provisional ballot can be counted. so it's telling all the counties, even though this litigation only initially

matt who have been discussing some of the local issues here legally. matt, i'm going to go to you first because i actually want to ask the intersection of politics and law and then i'm going to go to pete on the law, but on the political side of this statement, i'm going to reread a little ending of it, quote, we will pursue this process through every aspect of the law to guarantee the american people have confidence in our government. it does sound politically less strident and certainly less misleading than the president's rather unusual remarks at least by the standards of history. matt, your first reaction to this? >> well, hopefully this represents turning the page, the president's obviously talked a lot about law and order this year. he should embrace it here as well. we have laws. we have state laws that dictate how the process should unfold, how these votes should be counted, and frankly, up until now, the main -- the main cause for uncertainty in this whole